Delivering an underweight baby is associated with an increased risk of thinking and memory problems later in life, suggests study. Published in Neurology, the study shows how people who give birth ...

In some cases, these women were shown to be at almost twice the risk of giving birth prematurely, delivering an underweight baby or requiring a Caesarean. The risk of a premature-birth doubled if ...

Dr Timothy Ombati who has been attending to the baby at the paediatric ward, says there is a worry when a baby is born with such extremely low weight because premature babies usually have ...

In Japan, almost one in ten babies were born underweight in 2018. Very low birth weight is linked to an increased risk of developing disabilities, diabetes and other lifestylerelated diseases in ...