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 ...

Late pregnancy loss is more common in the South than in other regions of the United States, according to a new report given ...

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 ...

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

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

The paper by Neubauer et al. is timely and highlights the potential role of rEpo in the protection and repair of the vulnerable preterm infant brain. The findings emphasize the urgent need for ...

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 ...