Article: In 2004, one in eight babies in the United States was born preterm, or before the 37th week of pregnancy.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)

Article: 1 Million 'Preemie' Babies Die Each Year: Report; 13 million ...
Consumer Health News (English);  October 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... infants each year are born preterm -- 7.5 percent of ... 685,000 infants are born preterm -- 8.8 percent of ... 171,000 infants are born preterm -- 12.5 percent ... preterm birth in the United States have increased 36 percent ...

Article: The performance of infants born preterm and ...
Physical Therapy;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... learning and memory abilities in infants born preterm, a group at known risk for future impairments ... gestational age [GA]) and 10 infants born preterm (<33 weeks GA and <2 ... Galloway JC. The performance of infants born preterm and full-term in the mobile paradigm ...

Article: Gastrocnemius-soleus muscle tendon unit changes over the first 12 ...
Physical Therapy;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... musculoskeletal system. Posture in infants born preterm, both those at low risk and those at ... 3 to 4.5 years of age who had been born preterm and defined as either low risk or high ... term compared with infants at low risk born preterm at 40 weeks of gestation. Although ...

Article: Mother-Child Interaction as a Predictor of Mastery Motivation in ...
Journal of Early Intervention;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... young children with disabilities who are born preterm. Developmental psychologists have long ... developmental disabilities and children born preterm. Children with developmental disabilities ... critical point of intervention. Children born preterm also tend to display lower levels of ...

Article: Treadmill training for an infant born preterm with ...
Physical Therapy;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Davis et al (3) showed that infants born preterm at low risk for neuromotor complications ... typically developing infants, infants born preterm at low risk for neuromotor delays ... neuromotor delays, such as infants born preterm (<37 weeks of gestation) who ...

Article: Babies Born Preterm Cost Businesses Big Money: ...
PR Newswire;  March 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ...WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Employers pay nearly 15 times more for babies born prematurely -- in their first year of life -- than for full term babies, with an average cost of $41,610 for a premature baby vs. $2,830 for a healthy, full-term baby, the March of Dimes said today. The

Article: Postural behavior in children born preterm.
Neural Plasticity;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...SUMMARY The present paper presents clinical and neurophysiological data of postural behavior in preterm children without CP. Clinical follow-up studies of preterm infants until toddler and school age have reported that low-risk preterm infants may have atypical postural behavior in terms of reduced