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Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare

(AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator - but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

Biomedical technology

Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a tiny wireless implant that can provide real-time measurements of tissue oxygen levels deep underneath the skin. The device, which is smaller than the average ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Artificial womb technology breaks its four minute mile

A major advancement in pioneering technology based around the use of an artificial womb to save extremely premature babies is being hailed as a medical and biotechnological breakthrough. Recently published in the American ...

Pediatrics

Premature baby girls shorter as adults

Baby girls born very premature could be almost three times more likely to grow into very short adults than female babies born at term, according to a new international study.

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