Breastfeeding lowers the risk of diabetes as well as breast and ovarian cancers for mothers.
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Some states, especially in the Southeastern US, have large disparities in breastfeeding among racial groups, making clear the need to lower barriers for breastfeeding in the workplace and elsewhere.
Premature babies are at risk of impaired brain development, but adjusting the nutrients in intravenous feeding solutions may help reduce that risk.
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Premature infants are at risk of impaired brain development. Adding creatine to the intravenous solution used to feed them may lower that risk.
Parents can provide effective comfort and pain management for their infants.
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There are effective ways to help reduce babies’ pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 per cent of newborns. Here’s how to ease your infant’s pain.
Premature infants are at higher risk for lung diseases.
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Prenatal and postnatal antibiotic exposure combined with oxygen treatment led to lung inflammation and altered immunity in a study in mice.
New research suggests that a newborn is exposed to bacteria and fungi in the womb.
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Fungi live in everyone’s gut – but now a new study reveals that this colonization may begin before birth.
Human milk banks collect, pasteurise, test, store, and distribute donated breastmilk.
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The WHO has called for the global scale-up of human milk banks.
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The placenta could hold the answers to why HIV positive women report higher rates of premature deliveries.
Screening and sterilisation processes mean human breast milk can be safely collected and frozen for use at a later time.
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Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature babies.
A mother holds the foot of her premature baby. Prematurity is the most common cause of neonatal death globally.
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In developed countries, the main causes of preterm deaths are well known and studied.But in low resource countries, the causes are much less understood.
Not too soon.
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People who were born preterm earn less and are more likely to be unemployed, research shows.
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Women who live in poorer areas, are older mothers, smokers or are Aboriginal have a higher risk of having a premature birth…