St. Joseph Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit in Downtown Houston is caring for some of the region’s most fragile ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration met Wednesday to discuss something that was once thought to be only science fiction: the use of artificial wombs that could potentially help premature babies ...

When my oldest daughter was born prematurely, I was thrust into a world I never imagined—a world defined by the hum of incubators, the glow of monitors, and an all-encompassing fear of the unknown. In ...

St. Joseph’s NICU, which can care for up to 29 babies, sits at 1401 St. Joseph Parkway in downtown Houston, per the ...

November is Prematurity Awareness Month and one micropreemie mom turned her challenging journey into a nationwide movement, Once Upon A Preemie, Inc. The Black woman-led nonprofit organization is ...

ST. LOUIS — Jean Renaud became septic just weeks after she gave birth to her first child. “I ended up with appendicitis, and I could not nurse,” she said. Her pediatrician recommended her newborn get ...

The emotional strain of having a premature baby can be enormous. Around 60,000 babies are born prematurely in the UK, each year. In fact, the rate of preterm birth is between seven to eight per cent.

The judge determined the formula caused the roughly one-pound premature baby to develop necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a life-threatening gastrointestinal disease.