'Kangaroo Care' May Have Lasting Benefits for Human Babies

Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

For premature babies, being held in their parents' arms for a few hours a day is believed to help development. Now, new research that followed kids until age 10 suggests that the benefits of skin-to-skin contact may be longer-lasting than thought.

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