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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Surveillance video shows a nurse abusing a premature baby in the neonatal intensive care unit of a West End hospital, according to a criminal complaint obtained by CBS 6.

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico Doctors’ Hospital (HDH) failed to report the suspected abuse of four premature babies in its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who sustained fractures to ...