Breast Milk Doesn't Help Very Small Newborns
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NEW YORK  - Feeding very low birth-weight  infants with mother's milk rather than formula doesn't seem to  improve their neurological development, researchers have found.
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Breast-fed children are more intelligent than their bottle-fed counterparts, but this has nothing to do with the content of the milk they receive, a study published in the British Medical Journal said.
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NEW YORK  - Cooling the head with a special  cap may help reduce brain damage in infants with neonatal  encephalopathy, a serious neurologic condition that occurs in  the first days of life, new research shows. This treatment  seems to work for most infants, provided their condition is not  too severe.
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Cooling the brains of newborns who have been deprived of oxygen during birth could help cut the risk of brain damage.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire ) -- New research shows not only is breast feeding your newborn beneficial, but making sure the milk is fresh is also crucial.
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Women who take multivitamins before becoming pregnant are less likely to give birth to premature babies, new study findings suggest.
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In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of...
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For lower-income mothers breast-feeding, and the pumping it requires, is close to impossible at work.
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Well over 1,000 very small babies in California died from 1991 to 2000 probably because they were born in hospitals lacking expertise with the tiniest premature infants, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Babies who are breast-fed for their first four months of life have a reduced risk of asthma during their first four years, says a Swedish study in the October issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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NEW YORK  - Breastfeeding for even a few  months may lower the odds that a child will develop leukemia, a  new research review suggests.
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Birthday: A 15-year-old shows few signs of having been the smallest baby to survive. By Bonnie Miller Rubin. MAYWOOD, Ill. -- As a room full of doctors, nurses, friends and family fussed over Madeline Mann
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A new world record has been set by Rumaisa Rahman: She is the tiniest baby in the world -- 8.6 ounces (260 grams) at birth. Doctors who are caring for the little girl and her comparatively robust twin sister
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NEW YORK  - Children who are not  exclusively breastfed during the first 6 months of infancy have  a higher risk of asthma and allergy, according to a report from  Australia.
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NEW YORK  - Having a nurse visit the home a  few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of  newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or  dehydration -- and it saves money -- according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Women who breastfeed are less  likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than women who don't,  according to a new report.
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Babies who never sleep on their stomachs don&#39;t learn behaviors that may lessen their risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.