Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet. It must be strongly resisted ...

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate. Babies are born on a ...

Danielle and Andrew West spent their first month as parents praying their child would live ... kills bowel tissue and is most common in preterm babies, where it is often deadly.

In Illinois, early intervention services are often blocked or delayed due to underfunding and bureaucracy. Advocates are ...

[1–3] Nipple feeding is a complex, highly coordinated sensorimotor task, and the preterm infant has to reach a certain level of developmental maturity to be successful in the oral feeding process.

Muscle tone, or the resistance of a muscle to stretch, is generally much lower actively and passively in the preterm infant compared with the full-term infant. [5] In the first few months ...

Despite the risk to mother and child, many feel this is their only chance for stability, particularly those waiting for green cards. The policy change has severe implications for illegal ...

The Working Party has proposed the following guidelines for treating extremely premature babies. In all cases, an experienced pediatrician should be present at the delivery to make a confirmatory ...

UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti on Tuesday said it was currently premature for the Swiss bank to consider acquisitions as it continues to focus on the integration of Credit Suisse, which it ...

Doctors, and science more broadly, have made astounding gains in their capacity to save the lives of extremely premature babies, defined as those born before 28 weeks. In the 1960s, just 5 percent of ...

In the 1960s, just 5 percent of premature infants with respiratory distress survived; now it’s about 90 percent. Despite these encouraging gains, there’s an abysmal record across the country ...