Doctors are warning parents of a virus that is potentially life-threatening to infants, particularly premature babies, on the first National Premmie Day. The day has been launched with a warning about respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common virus that causes about 6,000 children to be treated in hospital every year in Australia.
The risk of [...]

Australia’s oldest premmie peer support groups have come together to launch Australia’s first national premmie day on June 12 this year to give these fragile infants a voice. More than 21,000 babies arrive early every year in Australia and more than 6,000 require critical life support and intensive around-the-clock medical intervention.
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Scientists have found evidence that the cox-2 inhibitor celecoxib, a common pain reliever used to treat arthritis, may offer a new way to reduce the risk of the most common cause of brain damage in babies born prematurely.The work involves shoring up blood vessels in a part of the brain that in premature infants is [...]

Georgia was born 10 weeks premature. Now, at 32 weeks, she is placed skin-to-skin on her adoring mother’s chest, tucked into place under mum’s jumper.
“Kangaroo care”, as it is officially known, involves parents cuddling up to premature infants each day for up to two to three hours, even if the baby is still attached to [...]

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