For moderately preterm infants, extending the caffeine treatment often used for apnea of prematurity for 28 days after discharge did not help them get home from the hospital sooner, the MoCHA ...

A clinical trial of preterm infants with inguinal hernia found that performing repair after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) resulted in less adverse events than procedures prior ...

Most children born very preterm (< 32 weeks of gestation) required hospitalisation after neonatal discharge and before 2 years of age. Longer hospital stay was associated with lower gestational age ...

Preterm infants with inguinal hernia did better with a late repair strategy after leaving the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and reaching 55 weeks' postmenstrual age compared with planning the ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association explores the impact of feeding extremely preterm infants with nutrient-fortified, pasteurized donor human milk versus preterm ...

A full-term pregnancy lasts around 40 weeks. However, sometimes labour may start early. If labour starts after 20 weeks and before 37 weeks, then it is called preterm labour or premature labour. This ...