Central Hillsborough Healthy Start offers a model of community care that helps to prevent premature births.
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Preterm babies receive up to 16 painful procedures every day. Pain in early life has been linked to altered brain development and poorer cognitive outcomes.
Some states, especially in the Southeastern US, have large disparities in breastfeeding among racial groups, making clear the need to lower barriers for breastfeeding in the workplace and elsewhere.
Premature infants are at risk of impaired brain development. Adding creatine to the intravenous solution used to feed them may lower that risk.
Malawi was one of the early adopters of kangaroo mother care, with a pilot intervention in 1999.
We still don’t know if being in lockdown during the pandemic really does lead to fewer premature babies, as some people report. Maybe we’re trying too hard to find some good news.
One in ten people are born prematurely.
Prenatal and postnatal antibiotic exposure combined with oxygen treatment led to lung inflammation and altered immunity in a study in mice.
New guidance recommends lifesaving treatment for extremely premature babies – but what does this mean for an abortion cut off at a similar gestation? An ethicist takes a look.
Soothing babies with song is a natural instinct for some parents, and research has shown just how powerful it can be for premature babies.
A new program has been show to help parents of preemies use their voice to foster their premature baby’s language development. The findings are hopeful, the researchers behind the program say.
Watching their babies via webcams eases parents’ anxiety and helps them connect in the absence of physical contact
Up to 70% of women develop gingivitis during their pregnancy but not many seek dental treatment for bleeding gums. This could be detrimental for their babies.
In developed countries, the main causes of preterm deaths are well known and studied.But in low resource countries, the causes are much less understood.
Delivering twins is a balance between preventing pregnancy complications and the dangers of prematurity. New research suggests there is an optimum time.
New research has found a commonly used method of preventing early or pre-term birth (delivery of a baby before 37 weeks) may in fact be causing more to occur, and leading to further problems.
A new baby is life-changing for all parents, but for those whose babies are born too early, the challenges can be immense.
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Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Reader/Lead, Healthy Lives & Relationships Research Group, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Paediatrics, Addis Ababa University
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Prematurity Clinical research fellow, Imperial College London
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Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor emerita Medical Biosciences, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Maternal and Perinatal Health, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Carolina
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Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University
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Professor of Health Services Criminology, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
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Associate Professor in Cardiology, University of Oxford
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Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Psychology) & Course Instructor (Department of Biochemistry), Memorial University of Newfoundland