PREMATURE birth is a significant public health challenge, not only in Tanzania but also across the globe. It poses major ...

Nearly one in every 10 infants in the United States is born preterm, or before 37 weeks of gestational age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infants born with very low ...

Babies born at just 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy continue to have sobering outlooks -- only about 1 in 3 survive. But according to a new study led by Duke Health and appearing Feb. 16 in the New ...

Curtis Means weighed just 15 ounces at birth. A boy who weighed just 15 ounces at birth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature infant to survive. Curtis Means, of ...

Preterm birth, defined as delivery between 20 and 36 weeks and six days, remains one of the most significant challenges in neonatal medicine. Babies born between 34 and 36+6 weeks are classified as ...

Preterm births are rising in Nepal as more couples marry and have children later in life, increasing health risks for ...

When Nash Keen was born at exactly 21 weeks gestation, University of Iowa Health Care couldn't even estimate his chance of living. No infant on record had survived after being born so early, about ...

Over the last 20 years, complications have decreased and survival has improved for extremely preterm infants, according to a study in the September 8 issue of JAMA. Advances in medicine over the past ...

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