newborn health

Parents of new babies should be considered for a whooping cough booster

harminka — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:29:40 -0600

A booster vaccination for parents of new babies and other household members may be the most effective way of preventing the fatal form of whooping cough in young infants, say a group of paediatric intensive care doctors on bmj.com today.

Parents are the unsung heroes

harminka — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:33:20 -0600

It's a parents worst nightmare, a newborn baby going under the knife to repair a heart defect. If the baby survives, that's when the real work begins for parents. University of Alberta nursing professor Gwen Rempel has seen hundreds of babies on the brink as a former pediatric cardiology nurse; she wanted to find out just what parents go through.

Discovery may bring special treatment for male babies

harminka — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:05:24 -0500

Hunter researchers have discovered that male babies born prematurely are more vulnerable to cardiovascular complications than female babies.

Simple test accurately predicts risk of serious jaundice in newborns

harminka — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:53:42 -0600

A simple test can accurately identify which newborn babies are at risk for developing dangerous levels of jaundice, according to researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Prenatal arsenic exposure detected in newborns

harminka — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:17:06 -0600

MIT researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harbored gene expression changes that may lead to cancer and other diseases later in life.

Survival of newborns with abdominal holes differs according to hospital

harminka — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:53:37 -0500

A newborn’s chance for surviving a low-risk version of a condition called gastroschisis varies greatly by hospital, according to a study by Johns Hopkins surgeons. Babies with the condition have a hole in their abdomen near the umbilical cord.

Health Differences In Newborn Girls And Boys

harminka — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:36:56 -0500

For generations, girls have whimsically been said to be made of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” and boys from “snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.” Inherent in these loving references is the fact that females and males are different, both when they are healthy and when they are ill.

Postpartum hospital discharges

harminka — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:23:24 -0500

A landmark nationwide study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, is the first ever to prospectively examine the decision-making process of over 4,000 mothers and their physicians around the readiness of mothers and their infants to leave the hospital after childbirth.

new Discovery for repairing brain damage in newborns

harminka — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:07:28 -0500

Scientists at Children’s National Medical Center have demonstrated conclusively that a specific protein and its signaling activity are instrumental in myelination and remyelination, processes essential to the creation and repair of the brain’s white matter.

Opportunities for Africa's Newborns

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:01:42 -0600