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Pain Management for Preemies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UConn nursing professor is studying a way of holding babies that can reduce pain for preemies.

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created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New criteria to project preemies' time in hospital, says researcher

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new way to estimate when the tiniest preemies -- babies born months early -- will go home from the hospital.

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Tracking the mighty microbe

Jillian Banfield studies very, very small things, but her work is vast in its scope and impact. So vast, in fact, that her discoveries have implications for space, the human body and nearly everything in between.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Price slashed for drug to prevent preemie births

(AP) -- The maker of an expensive drug to prevent premature births slashed the price by more than half on Friday, following an outcry over the high cost and moves by federal regulators to keep a cheap version available.

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created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Preemie birth preventive spikes from $10 to $1,500

(AP) -- The price of preventing preterm labor is about to go through the roof.

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created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Helping premature babies with new research

Edmonton researchers with the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have received a grant to use a hi-tech technique called “optogenetics” to study how the brain controls breathing. What they ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify biomarkers of poor outcomes in preemies

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have identified biomarkers of poor outcomes in preterm infants that may help identify new approaches to prevention.

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created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hold the gas? Inhaled nitric oxide of no benefit to most premature babies

A new Johns Hopkins Children?s Center study challenges the widespread practice of treating premature babies with nitric oxide gas to prevent lung problems, neurological damage and death. The research, based on analysis of ...

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created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant

Scientists have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in the gut of a premature newborn and documented how the microbe populations changed over time.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Care of late-preterm preemies may be insufficient

In the last 15 years the U.S has seen a sharp increase in the number of babies born as late-preterm infants, between 34 and 37 weeks' gestation. This is approximately 400,000 children each year, comprising over 70 percent ...

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created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study points to genetic link in apnea of prematurity

A potentially life-threatening challenge characterized by pauses in breathing that can last for more than 20 seconds, apnea of prematurity (AOP) affects more than 50 percent of premature infants and is almost universal in ...

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created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Federal report finds early births decline in most categories

For the first time in three decades, the nation - and most states - saw a two-year decline in preterm birth rates, indicating that strategies implemented over the past seven years have begun to pay off, according to the ...

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