Premature Birth

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health are advising the public of exposure to a case of measles in Lancaster and Philadelphia counties. An international traveler visiting Pennsylvania has been diagnosed...

Cher Cope is expecting her first baby and was happy as could be until 31 weeks--but a few days later she was placed on bed-rest at Baylor-Carrolton Medical Center with pregnancy complications. About seven years ago she was diagnosed with adult onset...

SOUTH BEND — After her twin girls were born, Nicole Blount didn't want to leave the hospital — because her babies couldn't. Born 15 weeks early, Blount's daughters needed the constant medical care that Memorial Hospital's Natal Intensive Care...

March of Dimes hosted a signature chef auction Monday night in Grand Rapids. The auction, presented by Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith PC Attorneys, features top chefs from around West Michigan. The event features food sampling, as well as a silent...

The state Department of Health is advising the public of potential exposure to a case of measles in Berks, Bucks, Delaware and Lehigh counties. This possible exposure is in direct link to the July 11 exposure previously reported at the Rite Aid Drug...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KTLA) -- The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Monday against using thickener when feeding premature infants after two deaths were reported. The FDA has discovered that SimplyThick may be causing life-threatening damage to...

The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments is being barred from practicing medicine. The Medical Board of California said the decision to revoke Dr....

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued its strongest warning against the use of a drug prescribed off-label to prevent preterm labor, saying it appears to be ineffective at delaying premature births and poses serious health risks for pregnant...

Yes, yes, it hath charms to soothe a savage breast (or beast, if you prefer to repeat a common mistake). But researchers are finding that music may be an effective balm for many other afflictions: the isolation of conditions such as autism and Alzheimer's...

September is National Hydrocephalus Awareness month, yet very few people are aware of it. Most people say, "Hydro what?" We don't. Our 6-year-old son Josh has hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus used to be called Water on the Brain, but that wasn't...

BRAWLEY — If it wasn’t for a keychain, things might have been a lot more complicated for Lorena Minor-Montes and her daughter, Abby. Minor recalled that the trinket she once received from a March of Dimes representative listed some of the...