by tiffany | Dec 30, 2012 | Related News
December 26, 2012 US News via. HealthDay News Treating very premature infants with high oxygen levels to improve their ability to breathe appears to boost their chances of surviving into toddlerhood, a new U.S. National Institutes of Health study found. Read the rest...
by tiffany | Dec 15, 2012 | Related News
Thursday December 13, 2012 NEW YORK (WABC) A parent’s gentle touch is very comforting for a newborn, but premature babies can’t enjoy mom or dad’s loving touch very often. That’s because they’re going through lots of medical procedures...
by tiffany | Dec 7, 2012 | Related News
By LAURA PHILLIPS-CHOU, M.D. Nov. 17, 2012 The March of Dimes has once again given the United States an unenviable “C” rating with regard to preterm birth rates. Statistics suggest that the country has actually been doing a better job in recent years,...
by tiffany | Dec 7, 2012 | Related News
CBS/AP/ November 16, 2012 Premature birth rates could be reduced if five proven interventions were implemented by 39 high-resource countries, a new report finds. Around 15 million premature babies are born preterm each year — that’s about 1 in 10 of the...
by tiffany | Nov 14, 2012 | Featured on home page, Related News
(March of Dimes / Nov. 13, 2012) The U.S. preterm birth rate dropped for the fifth consecutive year in 2011 to 11.7 percent, the lowest in a decade, giving thousands more babies a healthy start in life and saving billions in health and social costs. Four states –...
by tiffany | Nov 5, 2012 | Featured on home page, Related News
Released: 10/15/2012 12:00 PM EDT Source: Seattle Children’s Hospital Newswise — Five innovative research projects aiming to prevent premature birth were announced today by the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of...
