Even small increases in air pollution can increase the risk of serious respiratory illnesses for preterm infants.

Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and amniotic fluid leaking down her leg – was not how Ashley O’Neil expected her ...

Parents of extremely premature infants experienced sustained anxiety up to 2 years after NICU discharge, with nearly 1 in 4 mothers and approximately 1 in 6 fathers reporting clinically significant ...

Cynthia Toth, MD, of Duke University, discusses new BabySTEPS research showing that retinal nerve fiber layer and choroidal thickness on OCT correlate with 2-year neurodevelopmental outcomes in ...

Nearly one in every 10 infants in the United States is born preterm, or before 37 weeks of gestational age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infants born with very low ...

Outcomes for America’s newborns are the worst among the 38 OECD countries, including Canada and most of Western Europe. In particular, the almost 40 percent of infants in America who are born before ...

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that acute kidney injury (AKI) in ...

Premature babies are far more likely to struggle with money and relationship problems as adults than full-term infants, a three-decade-long study has shown.

A woman is suing Houston County in southeast Alabama for violating her constitutional rights after she was forced to give birth preterm with no medical assistance in the county jail. The lawsuit, ...

Discharge day in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, should feel like a finish line. After weeks or months of monitors ...