In poor countries, simple plastic bags are an alternative to the sterile plastic wrap used to regulate the body temperature of very premature babies in the United States, a study suggests.
Source: Healthy News
Jun
03
Tag Archives: Premature Babies
May
21
Bed-Sharing With Parents Puts Babies At 5 Times The Risk For SIDS
Co-sleeping with a newborn increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) fivefold, a new study in BMJ Open suggests. The likelihood applies even if parents are not smokers, drinkers, or drug users – other factors that raise the risk of SIDS, according to the study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A previous study conducted by a research team at the University of Calgary, Canada, suggests that premature infants born to mothers who smoke are at a higher risk for SIDS than premature babies born to non-smokers…
Source: Healthy News
Apr
15
News Analysis: Balancing Risks and Benefits in Clinical Trials
A federal agency’s rebuke that parents of premature babies in a trial of oxygen therapy were not notified properly of risks has raised alarm among some researchers.
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