A large review finds that a few drops of sucrose may help reduce pain in newborn babies during blood tests and other hospital procedures.

A new Cochrane review has found that sucrose can help with pain relief in newborn babies during common hospital procedures, ...

Sucrose is table sugar. When mixed with water, and in very small amounts, it can be used for pain relief in newborn babies. Sucrose is dropped on a baby's tongue about two minutes before and/or ...

Infants born very preterm spend weeks or even months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) while their immature brains are still developing. During this time, they receive up to 16 painful ...

When research funded by the sugar industry began to show evidence that sucrose was linked to poor cardiovascular health nearly 50 years ago, the industry pulled the plug on the study and then tried to ...