Premature infants in NICUs may endure about 14 painful procedures a day; evidence shows these early repeated painful stimuli can intensify pain sensitivity and produce long-term neurobiological harm.

A major step forward in neonatal care will be underway Tuesday as Memorial Health becomes one of only three hospitals in the ...

Memorial Health’s Dwaine and Cynthia Willet Children’s Hospital is taking part in the second generation Entarik feeding tube ...

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From helicopter transports to 1-lb miracles, see how Springfield’s NICU delivers world-class care — and compassion — when ...

The neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine provides trainees the training required to become key policy, educational and research leaders of the future ...

A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. This gives the fetus time to grow. At 40 weeks, the organs are usually fully developed. If a baby is born too early, the lungs may not be fully developed, and ...

Graduates of the DNP Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice to diagnose and manage the health problems of newborns, infants and toddlers up to the age ...

Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...

The Cape Coral Animal Shelter received a grant from the Orphan Kitten Club to help care for neonatal kittens, just in time ...