Breakthrough of premature contact

Evaluating the Effect of First Skin to Skin Contact Father with Premature Infants Admitted to their Anxiety

Introduction: The birth of a premature baby shocks parents a lot. Although fathers also experience high levels of anxiety, they have received little attention and research. In order to focus on family care, this study was conducted to determine the effect of the first skin contact of fathers with premature infants hospitalized on their anxiety in the neonatal intensive care unit. Methods: This...

Breakthrough : Thrombosis –

Breakthrough of the year.

W ell, there wasn't much doubt about this year's winner. Unlike some past Breakthroughs, this one unfolded very much in the public eye, and the arguments that sometimes ensue when Science's News and Editorial staffs converge for the selection were pretty tame this time around. The two Mars rover missions—well advertised by NASA beforehand— succeeded where two other recent attempts had failed, a...

Breakthrough to Nursing: a past Breakthrough chairperson looks back.

The breakthrough

The presentation of science in the media is usually far more optimistic than other areas of reporting; in place of war and famine we have breakthroughs and astonishing discoveries. But the detail — the slow accretion of supporting data and the puzzling incompatibility of some results — is usually ignored. In effect, science stories are ‘edited’ (either by the journalist or by the scientist who ...