In her Fort Myers apartment, White is alone in her struggle to care for her fragile daughter. However, across Florida many more parents spend their days and nights watching monitors, adjusting tubes ...

A wireless, portable incubator that could transform care for premature infants is reported in the International Journal of ...

Each year, an estimated 15 million babies are born prematurely — before 37 weeks of gestation — making preterm birth the ...

Are there enough physicians specializing in the care of babies born prematurely? One study says yes. Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found areas where practically no neonatologists practice ...

A recent study from Stanford Medicine emphasized the importance of "Kangaroo Care" for premature newborns, citing that the skin-to-skin care method improves the child's cognitive health and stabilizes ...

It’s been 40 years since Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison cared for its first premature baby. Levi Price already knew that. His 40th birthday was last week. He was that baby. According to his ...

The study found contact is especially crucial right after birth. For babies born prematurely, early skin-to-skin contact may have significant health benefits, according to a new study. The study, ...

Larissa Gonzalez's son, Caleb, was born prematurely and kept in the hospital for weeks. Afterward, she realized she needed to ...

Premature infants who received more skin-to-skin contact while in NICU showed significantly greater brain growth on discharge than preemies who received little or no skin-to-skin contact, based on ...