World's most premature baby is thriving, Miami hospital says
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The world's most premature living baby, born at 21 weeks and six days, is headed home after spending four months in a neonatal intensive care unit, Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami announced.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
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Doctors delay releasing the world's most-premature baby, saying she will stay in hospital for checks.
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NORWICH, Conn. - Oh baby! Marie Michel's fifth child was one for the record books. Michel gave birth to a 14-pound, 13-ounce boy Tuesday at William W. Backus Hospital.
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Doctors caring for a premature baby whose life depends on the outcome of a legal battle described her 11-month existence as one of endless pain, saying further superheroic efforts to save her would be &quot;intolerable&quot;.
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BANGALORE, India  - A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs left hospital smiling on Saturday, nearly six weeks after doctors removed her extra limbs in a grueling operation.
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Just more than one in four babies born in the United States in 2003 were delivered by cesarean section, the highest rate on record, according to a federal government report released Tuesday.
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A premature baby believed to be the smallest infant to survive was &quot;a great blessing&quot;, her mother said yesterday as she prepared to take the little girl and her twin sister home from hospital.
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The smallest premature babies, already  at high risk of brain damage, are likely to develop even more  mental disorders if they get any infection in the first weeks  of life, researchers said on Tuesday.
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A premature baby who doctors said spent less time in the womb than any other surviving infant will remain in a hospital a few extra days as a precaution, officials said Tuesday.
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Prenatal care, which includes not only professional health care services but also a healthy lifestyle, is a key factor in preventing birth problems.
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The worldâs most promising malaria vaccine has been shown to work in infants less than a year old, the most vulnerable group.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A baby born this week in northeastern Brazil weighing nearly 17 pounds is "doing great," hospital officials said Friday.
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Madeline Mann, the world&#39;s smallest surviving baby weighing 9.9 ounces or 0.28 kilograms at 26 weeks, was born 15 years ago at Loyola University Medical Center. Medical progress of her 14-year follow up will be released in a letter published in the Aug.
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Doctors can cut the risk of cerebral palsy in half for very premature babies by giving their mothers magnesium sulfate just before they give birth, new research shows.
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A premature infant believed to be the smallest baby ever to survive was called "a great blessing" Tuesday by her mother, who is preparing to take the little girl and her twin sister home from the hospital.
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A forecast by the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission shows that a third baby boom is expected in the next 10 years, and the annual number of newborns is expected to reach a peak of 160,000 in 2014 and 2015.