http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A mother's milk bank catering to needy infants free of cost has been set up in northwestern India as part of a drive to save the lives of vulnerable children, officials said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-breast-bank-cater-needy-infants.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:30:02 EST news285239719 A new study from researchers at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and other centers suggests that preterm infants with a low-grade bleeding in the brain may have similar neurodevelopmental outcomes as infants with no bleeding. The study appears online at JAMA Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-similar-neuro-outcomes-preterm-infants.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:57:41 EST news282826654 (Medical Xpress)—Results of new research from the University of Adelaide are a promising step forward in helping to improve the quality of life-saving blood transfusions for preterm babies, by reducing the likelihood of adverse inflammatory responses to the blood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-efficacy-blood-transfusions-preterm-babies.html Pediatrics Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:40:03 EST news272795237 The lives of at least 750,000 premature babies could be saved every year by taking simple and inexpensive steps to limit preterm birth, the world's largest killer of newborns, UN health experts said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-preterm-babies-die-unnecessarily-year.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:22:56 EST news272276562 New research, published in The Lancet today ahead of World Prematurity Day on Saturday Nov. 17, has found that if the world's 39 highest-income countries were to fully implement five interventions to prevent preterm births, including smoking cessation and reducing the number of elective caesareans, around 58,000 premature births could be averted annually, amounting to roughly US $3.0 billion in economic cost savings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-best-available-science-percent-relative-reduction.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:30:03 EST news272219519 (Medical Xpress)—Nearly one-third of premature babies develop bleeding in the brain after birth, a problem associated with serious long-term effects such as cerebral palsy, seizures and blindness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-device-brain-pre-term-infants.html Medical research Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:11:45 EST news267959499 Premature babies are more likely to survive when they are born in high-level neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) than in hospitals without such facilities, and this benefit is considerably larger than previously reported. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-survival-premature-babies-high-level-nicus.html Pediatrics Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:40:49 EST news262266036 Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-global-lags-nations-preterm-birth.html Health Wed, 02 May 2012 14:30:01 EST news255186074 From the 31st week of pregnancy, preterm babies are capable of recognizing with one hand an object they have already explored with the other. This ability, known as "intermanual transfer", has been demonstrated in premature infants by a team from the Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception and the CHU de Grenoble. These results show that the corpus callosum, also known as the colossal commissure, i.e. the brain structure involved in information transfer, is functional from this early age. This work has been published online, on the journal Child Development's website. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-left-premature-babies-link.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:20:01 EST news253433224 Children who were born prematurely may lag behind their peers when it comes to more advanced language skills, according to an international study that involved more than 2000 children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-prem-babies-lag-language.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:30:26 EST news251663413 A research paper which demonstrates that babies born even just a few weeks early have worse health outcomes than full term babies has been published today in the British Medical Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-babies-born-weeks-early-higher.html Health Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:40:03 EST news249884535 In the past few years, researchers at the University of Helsinki have made several breakthroughs in discovering how the brain of preterm babies work, in developing treatments to protect the brain, and in developing research methods suitable for hospital use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-eeg-brain-tracts.html Neuroscience Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:22:34 EST news248790149 Research conducted at Yale School of Medicine shows that a cesarean (C-section) delivery, which was thought to be harmless, is associated with breathing problems in preterm babies who are small for gestational age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-c-sections-linked-problems-preterm-infants.html Health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:12 EST news248101758 The widely-held assumption that a cesarean delivery has no health risks for the baby is being challenged today by new research that found the procedure did not help some preterm babies who were small for gestational age, and may even have contributed to their breathing problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-c-section-babies.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:50 EST news248021141 A detailed study from Malawi, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, shows that during the first 2 years of life, infants who were born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation) continue to have a higher risk of death than infants born at term and are also more likely to have poorer growth and developmental delay. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-surviving-premature-babies-malawi-poor.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:58:33 EST news239997504 Young adults who were born prematurely show multiple biological signs of risks to future health, research from Imperial College London has found. The scientists, reporting their findings tomorrow in the journal Pediatric Research, say that the research indicates that urgent work is now needed to monitor preterm babies into adulthood to improve the detection of early signs of disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-premature-babies-ill-health-life.html Health Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:40:19 EST news238149613 Babies born prematurely could be at greater risk of developing kidney diseases later in life according to a landmark study investigating the impacts of preterm birth on kidney development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-preterm-babies.html Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:23:35 EST news228388500