A large UK study called Baby-OSCAR followed 653 very premature babies who had a common heart-related condition, and it found that giving the medicine ibuprofen early — to close an open blood vessel near the heart — did not help babies survive better, breathe better, or develop better than giving a…

A large U.S. study found that a calm, family-centered way of caring for newborns going through opioid withdrawal—called Eat, Sleep, Console—let babies leave the hospital ready for discharge about a week sooner than the older method, and cut the number of babies who needed medication by more than…

A large randomized study across 39 U.S. hospitals found that for premature babies with an inguinal hernia — a common groin hernia — it is generally safer to repair it after the baby leaves the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) than before. Babies whose surgery was delayed until after discharge…

A big new study found that when newborns going through opioid withdrawal need medicine, giving a dose only when their symptoms flare up — instead of a fixed, around-the-clock schedule — helped them become medically ready to go home about two days sooner and with far less total medicine…

A large study across ten hospitals in the Netherlands tested whether an online "sepsis calculator" could safely reduce the number of newborns given antibiotics in their first hours of life. Compared with the usual checklist approach, hospitals using the calculator started antibiotics in far fewer…