A mum is "forever grateful" to have taken part in a new study focused on treating premature babies who need help breathing.

This international study focuses on comparing two methods of administering surfactant, a liquid medicine, to prematurely born ...

The Respiratory-Distress Syndrome of Newborn Infants Authors: Charles D. Cook, M.D., and William D. Cochran, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published March 26, 1964 N Engl J Med 1964;270: 673 - 676 ...

Maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy is significantly associated with increased risk for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in newborns, according to study results published in BMC Infectious ...

Although newborn babies had blood zinc levels much lower than normal adults, there was no significant difference in the blood zinc between premature infants with and those without respiratory ...

Before Clements made his discoveries, respiratory distress syndrome was the leading cause of death in premature babies, ...

The researchers did observe an increased risk for respiratory distress syndrome in neonates delivered at 37 weeks’ gestation vs. expectant management, with an adjusted OR of 2.7 (95% CI, 1.4-5.22).

Previous research of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS) in premature infants found that it could be treated by introducing replacement lung surfactant, but that was not the case in adults.