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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving parents of newborn preemies some help right from the start may make a difference in their children's behavior by school age, a new study suggests.Children born prematurely tend to have higher rates of behavioral problems, like ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Treatment with a gel containing the hormone progesterone can cut the risk of premature births by more than 40 percent in women with short cervixes, according to an analysis released on Wednesday.The so-called meta-analysis, which pooled published results of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who were born very prematurely, but without any serious brain impairments, may still not be as mentally sharp as their peers, a small study published Monday suggests.Finnish researchers found that of 208 young adults they ...
(Reuters) - Even tiny premature babies in hospital care after birth can make baby sounds, and are especially vocal when their parents are talking to them -- a finding that could be significant in terms of later language ability, a U.S. study ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of developing autism among children who were born prematurely is five times greater than among kids born after a full-term pregnancy, according to a new study."Although this group is not the first to report a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who were born prematurely may have a higher risk of the seizure disorder epilepsy than those who were born full-term, a new study suggests.The findings, from a study of 630,000 Swedish adults ages 25 to 37, ...
(Reuters) - Health problems are common among premature babies, who are more likely to die than their full-term peers during the first few years of life -- and they may also face slightly increased death rates as young adults, a study said."This ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When preemies grow up to be young adults, they could face slightly increased death rates, according to a new study based on Swedish data.Health problems are common among preterm babies, who also are more likely to die ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although extremely small preemies are plagued by many health problems, a new study shows they have no more chronic ailments in store when they hit their teens.But they did run into a problem that was common among ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - By the age of 16, children born very prematurely are able to catch up to kids born at full term in their ability to identify the names of things, according to a new study.The results are a ...