There's some good news for parents of preterm babies -- latest research shows that by the time they become teenagers, the brains of many preterm children can perform almost as well as those born at ...

Children born very preterm (<32 wk) are at high risk for mathematics learning difficulties that are out of proportion to other academic and cognitive deficits. However, the etiology of mathematics ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Friday is World Prematurity Day — a time for spreading awareness on preterm babies, the causes, and advice for expecting mothers. Sparrow Health System did just that Friday.

Relative to other primates, human children enter the world underdeveloped, namely when it comes to our brains. Human gestation would require an additional 9 to 12 months for babies to obtain the same ...

A new survey-based study from Northwestern University, which examined the diets of parents across every Chicago neighborhood, ...

Preterm birth increases risk for adult cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that arteries in 6-y-old children born preterm are narrower, with thicker intima-media and stiffer than in peers born at ...

Why do some people age faster than others? One potential answer, a new UCLA-led study indicates, is that a mother's stress prior to giving birth may accelerate her child's biological aging. The ...