Survival rates for tiniest babies holding steady
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NEW YORK  - After a dramatic leap in survival rates for very low birth weight babies up to 1997, there has been little change in survival or health for these infants since then, a new study shows.
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A girl born after just under 22 weeks in the womb &#151; among the shortest gestation periods known for a live birth &#151; will remain in a hospital a few extra days as a precaution, officials said Tuesday.
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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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Babies who are born heavy and grow  fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by  the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000  children in Hong Kong has shown.
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More than one in five children who die within four weeks of birth is an Indian despite improvements in child mortality rates worldwide, the United Nations Children's Fund said.
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Doctors at Chicago&#39;s Loyola University Medical Center introduced the world&#39;s smallest surviving baby Tuesday, a child born weighing just 8.6 ounces.
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A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
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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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JOWHAR, Somalia - Five months old and weighing less than 10 pounds, Shukri Mohammed stretched her tiny mouth to scream when a health worker measured her limp arm for malnutrition.
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A baby who was given a 1% chance of survival when she was born four months prematurely goes home.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Stressed-out pregnant women may carry smaller-than-average babies, a new study finds.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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A jump in the number of babies born at abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S. infant mortality rate rose in 2002 for the first time in 44 years, according to a federal study released on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Infants who sustain head injuries due to abuse have worse outcomes than their peers with head trauma due to other causes, researchers report in the journal Pediatrics this month.
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MAYWOOD, Ill. - A baby born weighing less than a soda can and believed to be the smallest ever to survive went home Tuesday after nearly six months in the hospital.
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NEW YORK  - The effects of low birth weight  on academic achievement persist well into adolescence, even  among young people from relatively affluent backgrounds, a new  study shows.
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Waiting up to two minutes to cut the umbilical cord after a premature baby is born reduces brain bleeding risk, say researchers.