Premature babies News

SUNDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are erroneously diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in many 18-month-old toddlers who were born extremely premature, a small new study suggests. Later testing showed that a high proportion of the toddlers ...

MONDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Newborn babies who have jaundice may be at higher risk of developing autism later on, new research suggests, but other experts said far more research needs to be done before a cause-and-effect relationship is pr...

MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Could the music of the 18th century classical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart help tiny infants born today? Yes, suggests an Israeli study that found that listening for just 30 minutes a day helped premature babie...

TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A protein from cow's milk could reduce by about two-thirds the rate of serious blood infections in babies born weighing less than 3.3 pounds. That's the conclusion of a study published in the Oct. 7 issue of the...

TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Advances in the care of extremely premature infants mean that about 70 percent of these tiny newborns now survive their first year of life, Swedish researchers report. The number of preterm births is increasing ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Potentially harmful agents called excipients are contained in liquid medicines commonly given to premature infants, according to a U.K. study. Excipients are used to ease the administration, absorption or preser...