Overall it corresponds to a fall of six premature babies in every 1, 000 births.
Premature babies who receive regular massage put on 47% more weight than non-massaged ones.
Pediatrix doctors care for some 20% of premature babies receiving intensive care in U.S. hospital NICUs.
WSJ: How Hospitals Save More Lives and Reduce Infections in Premature Babies
This study is the first to look at extremely premature babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks.
It appeared the limits of viability for the survival of premature babies had been reached, he said.
But, improved care means many more premature babies are surviving - especially those born after 25 weeks.
However, it can cause serious harm to vulnerable hospital patients with weakened immune systems, such as premature babies.
That limit was lowered to 24 weeks in 1990, as better care for premature babies meant more survived.
ECONOMIST: Legislators pick their way through reproductive issues
Jane Chen, the boss of Embrace, sells low-cost infant warmers for premature babies in India and several emerging markets.
Some neonatal intensive-care units (NICUs) are cutting back on the high levels of oxygen traditionally given to premature babies.
WSJ: How Hospitals Save More Lives and Reduce Infections in Premature Babies
For example, for very premature babies who need to be tube fed or women who are going back to work.
"Kangaroo Mother Care" could save nearly a half-million premature babies through the warmth of their own mothers' skin, no incubators necessary.
BLISS, the charity for premature babies and their families welcomed the research.
Infected mothers are far more likely to have low-birthweight or premature babies.
The programme secured exclusive access to the largest ever study of extremely premature babies born at less than 26 weeks gestation in 1995.
But campaigners question the relevance of data on premature babies, many of whom are premature precisely because they, or their mothers, are ill.
ECONOMIST: Abortion laws: Hard cases and slippery slopes | The
At Renaissance, I talked with a neonatologist who trained at my hospital, in Boston, and brought McAllen new skills and technologies for premature babies.
Stopping this tragedy there are 20 million low birth weight and premature babies born each year is the primary mission of Embrace.
FORBES: Embrace Warms Up Premature Babies At the Bottom of the Pyramid
However, Dr Richard Martin, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, warned that treatments for premature babies sometimes turned out to cause more harm than good.
It was found that nitric oxide was linked to a higher rate of brain haemorrhage in the most premature babies - 2.2 pounds (1, 000 grams) or less.
These complications are the primary cause of serious long-term brain damage in premature babies and are associated with the subsequent development of cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
Routine surgery would become life-threatening because of the risk of untreatable infections, care for premature babies and certain cancer patients would falter, organ transplants would be unviable.
The program was developed in response to the shocking infant mortality statistics in the United States, as well as to prevent low birth weight and premature babies.
Smaller, less invasive, sensors could be especially useful for monitoring premature babies or for studying patients with sleep apnoea without them wearing wires through the night, researchers say.
And the fact that very premature babies now have a far better chance of living albeit usually with severe disabilities has also made late-term abortion a harder sell than it was.
Some of the new born babies developed breathing problems after an hour in the car seats and that some of the premature babies even stopped breathing for a short period.
Finally, donors are flocking to China's first breast milk bank in Guangzhou that was set up in March to help feed premature babies and sick infants, Yangcheng Evening News reports.
So it is unlikely that the research, published in the journal Neuropsychology, will radically change the way that obstetricians and paediatricians approach delivery of premature babies, and their care in the first hours after birth.
To help the company improve its image and internet presence, he creates and writes content for a website called GEAdventure.com, which tells stories of cool (and heart-warming) products the company makes, like incubators for premature babies.
应用推荐