Kyle Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, is the new director for the F.D.A. food division, which oversees infant formula.

Early nutrition in very preterm infants does not significantly impact brain growth or neurodevelopment when following ...

Recent study compared the effects of selectively applying a face mask only for positive pressure ventilation (PPV) versus ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new precision ...

[1–3] Nipple feeding is a complex, highly coordinated sensorimotor task, and the preterm infant has to reach a certain level of developmental maturity to be successful in the oral feeding process.

Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE -- a type of brain damage caused by oxygen loss -- offers no benefits ...

Michigan advocates are working to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and more equitable for communities of color.

Surprisingly, preterm placentas had absorbed these plastics ... Microplastics can significantly impact infant health by potentially causing developmental issues, affecting the immune system ...

Studies have shown that by feeding preterm infants in response to their developmental cues, infant-driven feeding (IDF) might help establish independent oral feeding skills. The goal of the ...

Nonetheless, preterm infants still remain at increased risk for medical complications, including invasive infections and sepsis, many of which are poorly predicted in real time or not at all by ...