A recent study found that premature boys’ and girls’ brains develop differently, leaving boys’ brains susceptible to more frequent and severe disorders. A study done by researchers at the UI Carver ...

The incidence of premature babies has been stable or even increased over time. The phenomenon brings with it the possibility of neurological, sensorial, respiratory, cognitive or psychomotor ...

The last trimester of pregnancy is a thrilling time for mothers because they will soon meet their baby. Although many preparations have been made, sometimes not everything can go according to plan.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Babies born premature need quite a bit of tender love and care to survive and grow strong, but their developing brains and bodies also require a delicate balance of nutrition.

Music therapy can reduce stress in premature infants and help them recover from medical procedures. University of Missouri researchers are now studying whether music therapy also affects their ...

Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. Researchers have now found possible targets for the early treatment of such damage outside the brain: Bacteria in the gut of premature ...

Doctors at Vanderbilt University have found that tweaking the traditional pacifier to play a mother’s voice can provided added benefits to premature babies. Preemies that were given a special pacifier ...

Babies born prematurely don't use their expectations about the world to shape their brains as babies born at full term do, important evidence that this neural process is important to development. The ...

Parents may wonder, how to calculate the age of a premature baby and is it the same as calculating the age of a baby born on time? Determining the age of a premature baby is very important considering ...