Infants in Medical Technology

MedImmune Funds Study to Help Gain Insights Into Full Burden of RSV Disease Among Premature Infants

... respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among preterm infants 32-to-35 weeks gestational age (GA) in outpatient ... study will look to identify the preterm infants that may be most susceptible to serious RSV ... insight into what risk factors may make preterm infants most susceptible to RSV infection and to serious ...

MedImmune Presents New Data Demonstrating Increased Risk for Medically Attended RSV in Late-Preterm Infants

... (RSV) infection requiring medical treatment in infants born at 33 weeks gestational age [GA] or later. ... RSV infection, and that this risk is higher among infants exposed to supplemental oxygen or assisted ... to the growing evidence that, late-preterm infants face greater morbidity and healthcare costs up to ...

Children's Hospital Receives $6.7 Million Grant From Gates Foundation to Study Influenza Vaccine in Pregnant Women in Asia

... to help prevent flu in pregnant women and their infants in rural areas around the world. Most ... occur in the first hours and months of life when infants are most susceptible to infections. In ... many births happen at home, protecting these infants is a challenge. Maternal immunization, which is ...

Preterm Births Rise 36 Percent Since Early 1980s

... Late Preterm infants Drive the Increase WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. ... States preterm birth rate continues, putting more infants than ever at increased risk of death and ... increase to the growing number of late preterm infants (those born at 34 to 36 weeks gestation), which ...

Two New Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine Show Malaria Vaccine Candidate Advancing in Africa

... malaria vaccine candidate provides both infants and young children with significant protection ... one million people each year -- most of them infants and young children in Africa, the intended ... Vaccines(1) The infant study enrolled 340 infants under 12 months of age in Tanzania and found that ...

Wyeth Submits European Marketing Authorization Application for its 13-Valent Vaccine for the Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease in Infants and Young Children

... pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) for infants and young children. Wyeth is seeking ... included in the investigational vaccine in infants and children from two months to five years of ... the current global standard in PD prevention in infants and young children. The six additional serotypes ...

Enobia Initiates Infantile Enzyme Replacement Trial for Rare Bone Disease

... ENB-0040 will be evaluated in both adults and infants afflicted with hypophosphatasia at sites in ... This rare disease leads to severe rickets in infants and children and debilitating osteomalacia -- ... to enroll several additional severely affected infants who meet study criteria in a parallel study. ...

MedImmune Advances Pediatric Disease Prevention Program With Start of Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine

... RSV is the most common respiratory infection in infants and can cause disease in otherwise healthy infants and children. "RSV is a serious respiratory ... viral shedding of the intranasal RSV vaccine in infants and young children. It is a randomized, ...

March of Dimes Honors Dr. Susan Carlson for Outstanding Work In Maternal-Fetal Nutrition

... docosahexaenoic acid) levels than formula-fed infants and the first to recognize and study the ... to report, in 1989, that formula-fed preterm infants had higher visual acuity when fed a formula ... nervous system as well as visual functioning in infants and supports healthy brain development, ...

Inhaled Nitric Oxide Data Presented at European Academy of Pediatrics Meeting

... pre-term (less than 30 weeks of gestational age) infants with birth weights less than 1,500 g. BPD is even more pronounced in very pre-term infants (less than 26 weeks of gestational age) with ... dose was administered to higher birth weight infants than in previous studies which -- combined with ...

Enobia Pharma Initiates Clinical Testing of Enzyme Replacement Therapy to Treat Hypophosphatasia

... ENB-0040 will be evaluated in both adults and infants afflicted with hypophosphatasia in Canada and the ... in a six-month open label study of up to six infants with particularly severe hypophosphatasia. ... of bone mineralization, leading to rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia ("soft ...

Task Force Recommends Screening for Hearing Loss in All Newborns

... compared with children with normal hearing. infants at high risk for hearing loss include those who ... of childhood hearing loss. Because half of infants with hearing loss have no identifiable risk ... than targeted screening. Detecting and treating infants for hearing loss, rather than detecting it at a ...

Study Shows Physician Judgment is Important in Reducing Rate of RSV-Related Hospitalizations Among High-Risk Infants

... 4,000 medical records from premature infants born at 32-to-35 weeks gestational age were ... the rate of RSV hospitalization among those infants whose physicians did not request RSV prophylaxis ... and experience of physicians serve to identify infants at high risk of RSV hospitalization, and should ...

Phase 3 Data Regarding Anti-RSV Antibody To Be Presented at Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting

... Phase 3 study involving 1,410 full-term healthy infants less than six months of age in some Southwest ... tolerated. About RSV Each year, up to 125,000 infants in the U.S. are hospitalized with severe RSV ... cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants in the United States. RSV is the most ...

Leukemia Therapy With Imatinib During Pregnancy May Cause Infant Abnormalities

... The remainder of the births resulted in infants with congenital abnormalities (n=9, one still birth). In total, 12 pregnancies resulted in infants with fetal abnormalities (9.6 percent) and of ... above). Some of the abnormalities in the infants were similar, including exomphalos (umbilical ...

Paul Capital Healthcare Purchases Additional Royalty Interest in GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix(R)

... that causes diarrhea and dehydration in infants and young children. The product is marketed by ... is a serious condition that impacts millions of infants and young children worldwide, leading to ... leading cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide. Severe diarrhea and ...

Simple Test Accurately Predicts Risk of Serious Jaundice in Newborns

... takes care of newborn babies is to identify those infants they send home that will develop a bilirubin ... age, you could accurately predict which infants are at very high risk and which ones are at very ... limitations, including a small sample size. Some infants in the study were treated with phototherapy, high ...

Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout the Influenza Season

... and for anyone who lives with or cares for infants 0 to 6 months of age since this is the only way ... influenza in these infants. These very young infants are more likely to be hospitalized if they ... pregnant women offers these infants passive immunity. Influenza comes on very ...

New Data Published in The Lancet Show GSK's ROTARIX(R) Offers Protection Against the Most Common Circulating Rotavirus Types

... rotavirus gastroenteritis can occur in infants as young as three months of age. Since ... of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommend that infants receive routine vaccination with the rotavirus ... leading cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children in the U.S. and worldwide. ...

MedImmune Presents New Pharmaco-Economic Data at American Academy of Pediatrics Regarding Infants at High Risk for RSV

... trials. About RSV Each year, up to 125,000 infants in the United States are hospitalized with severe ... or childhood. Approximately one-half of all infants are infected with RSV during the first year of ... in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, infants with a history of prematurity (less than or equal ...

MedImmune Announces Phase 2 Safety Data for Anti-RSV Antibody and National RSV Surveillance Results

... trials. About RSV Each year, up to 125,000 infants in the U.S. are hospitalized with severe RSV ... cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants in the United States. RSV is the most ... or childhood. Approximately one-half of all infants are infected with RSV during the first year of ...

New Data Show That GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix(R) Could Be Given With Other Routine Infant Vaccines in the U.S.

... that Rotarix(R), an oral candidate vaccine for infants to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis, could be ... "If the candidate vaccine is approved, infants could complete the rotavirus vaccine series by ... of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommend that infants receive routine vaccination with the vaccine ...

New Study Demonstrates 4 Year Olds Fed Enfamil LIPIL(R) as Infants Have Brain and Eye Outcomes Similar to Breastfed Babies

... milk had been followed in the same group of infants out to 18 months of age.(2, 3) DHA ... that the recent Birch study, which enrolled infants born from 1993 to 1995, also included a control group of infants who received Enfamil with Iron as it was ...

MedImmune's Motavizumab Reduced RSV Hospitalizations by 83 Percent Among High-Risk Native American, Full-Term Infants in Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 study

... trials. About RSV Each year, up to 125,000 infants in the U.S. are hospitalized with severe RSV ... cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants in the United States. RSV is the most ... or childhood. Approximately one-half of all infants are infected with RSV during the first year of ...

Program Improves Language Skills in Deaf, Hard of Hearing

... newborn hearing screening program. As is the case in many states, all infants born in Ohio hospitals or birthing centers receive hearing screenings ... About 6,000 of them do not pass their newborn hearing screening. Ohio infants who are identified with a permanent hearing loss are eligible for ...

Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference

... to be more than 50 percent effective in preventing malarial disease in infants under the age of 17 months. W. Ripley Ballou, MD, deputy director of ... to take three years, is to begin within the next few days among 14,000 infants in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gabon, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique. ...

Enobia Pharma Appoints Industry Veterans with Commercial and Manufacturing Expertise to Expand Senior Management Team

... an important regulator of bone mineralization, leading to rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia ("soft bones" resulting from poor ... debilitating osteomalacia in adults. In the infantile form, infants may appear normal at birth but develop serious symptoms in the first six ...

Enobia Pharma Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Hypophosphatasia Product Candidate ENB-0040

... an important regulator of bone mineralization, leading to rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia ("soft bones" resulting from poor ... debilitating osteomalacia in adults. In the infantile form, infants may appear normal at birth but develop serious symptoms in the first six ...

Leading Healthcare System Decreases MRSA Infection Rate by 53 Percent - Offers Protocol & Educational Materials Free of Charge to Other Organizations

... hospital neonatal unit. Wiles learned the spread of MRSA to 18 premature infants was a direct result of hospital staff and physicians not properly washing their hands before, in-between or after caring for these infants. Two infants died from complications related to being born prematurely and to MRSA. ...

Wyeth Applauds Six Countries Across Europe, and the Middle East, That Recently Announced the Inclusion of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) in Their Immunization Schedules

... Republic and Sweden for announcing their decisions to routinely immunize infants and young children against pneumococcal disease by adding PREVENAR(TM) ... the first and only pneumococcal conjugate vaccine approved to help protect infants and young children against pneumococcal disease caused by the serotypes ...

Wyeth Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for its 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for Infants and Toddlers

... the Company's investigational 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for infants and toddlers. Wyeth is seeking a pediatric indication for active ... vaccine is being studied in Phase 3 global clinical trials in both infants and adults. Wyeth recently has achieved significant success in bringing ...

AlphaVax Announces Initial Analysis of Data From CMV Phase 1 Clinical Trial

... that is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in congenitally infected infants and hematopoietic stem cell (HSCT) and solid organ transplant (SOT) ... United States, causes occasional mortality and significant morbidity in infants and young children (e.g., hearing loss and mental retardation). For ...

Infant Formula Manufacturers Again under Ethical Cloud: 'Marketing Gimmick' Linked to Serious Illnesses

... why they're found in human breast milk. But we have also seen that some infants are experiencing side effects like diarrhea from consuming the ... process, the inadequate testing for safety, and most importantly, how some infants are experiencing serious adverse reactions from formula supplemented with ...

Research Highlights Potential Benefits of Telemedicine in Treating Eye Disease

... retinopathy," said Dr. Zimmer-Galler. Offering Quality Care to Premature infants In a second study presented at the annual meeting, researchers concluded ... and image-based telemedicine examinations. "The number of premature infants is increasing throughout the world, and a larger percentage of them are ...

Large Controlled Trial of Widely Used Mood Stabilizers Demonstrates Efficacy in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

... the surfactant preparation that saves the lives of thousands of premature infants each year, and a rotavirus vaccine that saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of infants around the world each year. Current strategic directions include the ...

Hopkins Report: Focusing on Family Planning Lessens HIV Impact

... each year and has great potential to further reduce the number of infants born with HIV, according to the latest issue of Population Reports, ... Catherine Richey and Vidya Setty. Without treatment, 15% to 30% of infants of women with HIV are born infected. Another 10% to 20% are infected ...

Infant Formula Company Teams With the University of Virginia Pediatrics Department to Conduct Clinical Studies

... L. Sutphen, M.D., Ph.D., U.Va. Department of Pediatrics and lead researcher on studies involving PBM formulas, it is very common for formula-fed infants to be switched from one formula to another during the first year of life. "It's important to remember that all infant formulas manufactured and ...

New Bisphenol A Study Is of Very Limited Relevance to Human Health

... Japan is that the current levels of exposure to BPA through food packaging do not pose an immediate health risk to the general population, including infants and young children.'" www.americanchemistry.com The American Chemistry Council (ACC) represents the leading companies engaged in the ...

Ground-Breaking Combination of All-Oral Agents Demonstrates Potential as Hepatitis C Treatment Regimen

... greater than or equal to 6 in cirrhotic CHC patients coinfected with HIV before or during treatment. PEGASYS is also contraindicated in neonates and infants because it contains benzyl alcohol. Benzyl alcohol is associated with an increased incidence of neurological and other complications in neonates and ...

Roche and Pharmasset Initiate Phase IIb Clinical Trial of R7128, Most Advanced Nucleoside Polymerase Inhibitor in Development for Chronic Hepatitis C

... greater than or equal to 6 in cirrhotic CHC patients coinfected with HIV before or during treatment. PEGASYS is also contraindicated in neonates and infants because it contains benzyl alcohol. Benzyl alcohol is associated with an increased incidence of neurological and other complications in neonates and ...