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Doctors’ Own Fear of Death Linked to Hastening Death of Very Sick Newborn

...interpreted as indicative of rampant euthanasia on neonatal units. Rather, he says, the study shows that “In relation to neonatal death and dying, doctors’ fear, or lack of it, matters. It matters because it can influence clinical...

Prematurity More Accurately Predicted by Advances in Proteomic Technology

...d inflammation, which is predictive of early-onset neonatal infection. “Early recognition, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal infection are important aspects of the current clinical practice,” said Buhimschi. “Therefore, prosp...

Newborns With Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease

...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), found that neonatal respiratory distress was a common clinical symptom...male infertility. However, chronic ear disease and neonatal respiratory distress are relatively uncommon in cystic fibrosis and should prompt the caregiver to c...

Multiple Course of Steroids Protects Preterm Baby’s Lung

...ed by analyzing data collected in the University’s neonatal intensive care unit at Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong between 1996 and 1998, included 174 babies who were born at 28 to 32 weeks. Their brain functioning was measured by a neurological assessment given within 24 hours of birth called the audi...

Indian Doctors Headed to Lahore to Take Part in Gynecology Conference

...share common problems, with very high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Every minute there's a death due to pregnancy complications. Only 34 percent of births in the region get skilled help, said Malhotra. Source-IANS...

Pacifier Use May Lower Risk of SIDS

...rding to an article in Nursing for Women’s Health, neonatal health care practitioners should counsel new parents on the potential benefits of using a pacifier. This advice follows the release of updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on SIDS, suggesting that pacifie...

Haryana Declared Neonatal Tetanus-free

Haryana has been declared free of neonatal tetanus by the central government. // State Healt...health and family welfare ministry, declaring that neonatal tetanus had been eliminated from Haryana. The status has been conferred on the basis of a survey c...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...g countries//. Low birth weight is associated with neonatal and infant mortality, poor growth and cognitive development, and morbidity due to chronic diseases later in life, such as diabetes and heart disease. In a new study, the largest to date, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) ...

Two Indians on Team to Battle Cervical Cancer

...e winner's tally. An inexpensive device to treat neonatal jaundice developed by Vijay Anand of Bangalore was...ht unit for $500. With the standard light to treat neonatal jaundice costing $4,000 each, hospitals, especially in poor and underdeveloped countries, cannot aff...

Stillbirth Figures Stand Still

... in this country. Advances in technology mean that neonatal mortality through premature births has fallen but stillbirths present us with a challenge. We need to know more about why stillbirths happen.” SAV/...

Drug Therapy can Reduce Preterm Births and Decrease Lifetime Medical Costs

...ited States, preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal deaths and the leading cause of pediatric neuro-de...studies, the investigators determined that initial neonatal hospital costs could be reduced by $3800 per woman treated and could lead to a reduction in lifetime...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

...officials claim they are renovating the hospital's neonatal ward currently, and have changed procedures since the discovery so that no water from the plumbing system comes into contact with babies. Instead of tap water, sterile water is now used. Hospital officials now declare Sainte-Justine Hospital to be to...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

... have, combined with the provision of transitional neonatal care." In summary, there is a crisis brewing in the maternity care in hospitals. Measures need to be taken on a war footing to save the day for patients availing care at such units. SA/M...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...iatrics at the University of London. To regulate neonatal euthanasia, clinicians in the Netherlands have arg...r 2006, “unreservedly” rejected the possibility of neonatal euthanasia in the context of UK practice even when life is intolerable. One of the reasons the UK ...

Village Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants

...n October 2004 with Unicef's support to reduce the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in India. NMR accounts for at least two-thirds of the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and this programme will automatically bring down the cases of MMR drastically. "In Mayurbhanj, at least 57 percent of the people belong to Sch...

Sleep-related Breathing Disorder may Affect Premature Infants

...responses of parents of those patients attending a neonatal follow-up clinic to a research questionnaire. Every parent who was approached agreed to participate, and analyses were based on the first 71 participants. Patients were born at 31 weeks gestation and were 10.6 months of age at the time of the study. ...

Pregnant Mom's Exposure to Flu Vaccine Benefits Fetal Immune System

...st influenza, supporting the theory that the human neonatal immune system is not deficient or incompetent but, rather, capable of responding to environmental exposures. These conclusions have important implications for determining when immune responses to environmental exposures begin....

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...ping countries, frequently causing stillbirths or neonatal death and disabling children who survive. Often un...i can prevent more than 2,000 cases of stillbirth, neonatal death or congenital syphilis. 'We have shown that by working with the HIV prevention program infra...

High Level ICU Facilities Afford Greater Survival Chances for Small Infants

...ht infants delivered in hospitals with high-level neonatal intensive care units, have better survival chances... to the level of services they provide. High-level neonatal intensive care units provide mechanical ventilationthe use of a device that assists with breathing. ...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...tion in which community hospitals with lower-level neonatal intensive care units are shouldering an increasing.... "Although being born in a place with a mid-level neonatal intensive care unit is better than a place with no neonatal ICU at all, we found that these extremel...

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