Central Hillsborough Healthy Start offers a model of community care that helps to prevent premature births.
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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.
There are effective ways to help reduce babies’ pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 per cent of newborns. Here’s how to ease your infant’s pain.
Prenatal and postnatal antibiotic exposure combined with oxygen treatment led to lung inflammation and altered immunity in a study in mice.
Fungi live in everyone’s gut – but now a new study reveals that this colonization may begin before birth.
The WHO has called for the global scale-up of human milk banks.
The placenta could hold the answers to why HIV positive women report higher rates of premature deliveries.
Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature 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.
People who were born preterm earn less and are more likely to be unemployed, research shows.
A new blood test can predict whether women showing signs of early labour will go on to give birth too soon, according to…
Premature babies can be taught to feed more efficiently using a therapy combining the sound of their mothers voice and a…
Women who live in poorer areas, are older mothers, smokers or are Aboriginal have a higher risk of having a premature birth…
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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AXA Research Fund-Post doctoral research fellow, Division of Immunology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Paediatrics, Addis Ababa University
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Senior Research Fellow and Head of Neonatal Nutrition Research Unit SAHMRI, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer and SAHMRI Fellow, Flinders University
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Health Services Criminology, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
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