To discourage planned early deliveries, hospitals are banning moms from scheduling births before 39 weeks without a medical …
NICU
Faster DNA Testing Helps Diagnose Disease in NICU Babies
Fifty hours. That’s how long it now takes to decode and interpret a newborn baby’s genome — an undertaking that used to take weeks, or even months. And those two days can mean the difference between life and death for a …
The Cost of Premature Birth: For One Family, More than $2 Million
A new report released Wednesday finds that 15 million babies worldwide are born prematurely each year. For any hope of prevention, preterm birth needs to raise its PR profile.
Reading to Newborns in the NICU Boosts Bonding
In the unhappy event your newborn needs to log time in the neonatal intensive care unit, you might want to bring a book — for you, of course, to help pass the time, but even more importantly for baby.