Despite hopes that early nutrition could enhance brain growth in preterm infants, a new study finds no significant impact—challenging assumptions about feeding strategies in neonatal care. Study: ...

The PROMETEUS project aims to revolutionise nutrition for preterm infants by developing advanced real-time metabolic ...

Researchers led by the Trondheim University Hospital in Norway report that two hours of immediate skin-to-skin contact between mothers and very preterm infants after birth does not improve cognitive, ...

Preterm birth frequently interrupts the maturational processes essential for safe and efficient oral feeding. In utero, a coordinated sequence of sucking, swallowing and breathing begins around 32 ...

Artificial intelligence shows promise as a predictive tool that can provide assistance in defining a nutritional plan for preterm infants. This is the concept of an innovative study recently published ...

In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The ...

An early baby is one born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Depending on how early the birth occurs, babies may be classified as: The earlier a baby is born, the more care and monitoring they need in the ...

Outcomes for America’s newborns are the worst among the 38 OECD countries, including Canada and most of Western Europe. In particular, the almost 40 percent of infants in America who are born before ...