Martin Couney's Coney Island incubator showcases saved the lives of 6,500 premature babies, forever changing the field of neonatal medicine.

Baby incubators provide extra support for newborns who need it. ... It sometimes happens when babies are premature, have an infection, or are born to women with gestational diabetes.

A 2023 meta-analysis concluded that when premature infants are ... The U.S. standard of care and default treatment is still to place preterm and low birth-weight infants in NICU incubators, ...

A hospital in Essex received a new piece of equipment, worth more than £47,000, to help reduce the risk of complications for ...

Premature babies experience noise in incubators very differently to the uterus environment. Amniotic fluid muffles sound from outside the uterus, and most sounds heard in utero will be low ...

Skin-to-skin contact significantly reduces death rates for premature babies. A sweeping analysis also suggests that kangaroo mother care works best if started within the first 24 hours of life ...

MONDAY, March 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While an incubator can save the life of a premature baby, it may be contributing to hearing loss in these vulnerable infants. A new study published March ...

A 2023 meta-analysis concluded that when premature infants are provided with skin-to-skin care, they have improved breastfeeding, weight gain and sleep compared with infants given incubator care ...