Since micro preemies are born months before their due dates, they face long stays in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although many extremely premature babies grow up with no long-term ...

Alexia Purkanto weighed less than two pounds when she was born. Now 16, she has donated to those who saved her life at York ...

(KPLC) - A baby’s first smile ... Cross was a micro-preemie weighing in at just over 2 pounds. “He had to stay in the NICU through Christmas because he had a VSD. They said he had to have ...

A premature baby is exposed to ... neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where their health is monitored. Recently, a similar case happened in Mumbai. A micro-preemie was born at just 23 weeks ...

Although medical technology and advancements in preterm care have improved survival rates for premature babies, there may be ...

In Illinois, early intervention services are often blocked or delayed due to underfunding and bureaucracy. Advocates are ...

That “breast is best” for newborns’ health — especially vulnerable preemies — is now scientific ... milk when her son was in the NICU. “Milk banks are really designed to help premature, hospitalized ...

While it was already known that many premature babies face serious health challenges such as breathing, a new study has suggested that even relatively healthy preemies confront deficits in lung ...

A nurse at a hospital in Virginia has been charged in connection with an incident that left a premature baby suffering from ... Doctors’ Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was charged ...

Due in January, the premature baby was born on Dec. 4 and has been in the NICU for the first few weeks of her life. With their baby in the hospital, parents Inna and Jared Mason did not think ...