Over a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a report that found the annual cost of premature births in the United States exceeded…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The optimum timing for planned delivery of uncomplicated monochorionic and dichorionic twin pregnancies is unclear. New research suggests that, with close fetal surveillance,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant HIV-infected women treated with a single intrapartum dose of nevirapine (NVP) to prevent vertical HIV transmission, the subsequent selection of nevirapine-resistant…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Moxifloxacin is as effective as amoxicillin/clavulanic acid in the treatment of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the outpatient setting, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In neonatal resuscitation, routing of a central venous catheter via the umbilical vein can be reliably guided by thoraco-abdominal X-ray or ultrasound, while…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gastric acid suppression using ranitidine in very low birthweight infants is associated with an increased risk of infection, necrotizing enterocolitis, and death, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants born as early as 23 weeks’ gestation are more likely to survive and have less impairments if their mothers are given corticosteroids…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an updated meta-analysis indicate that there are no clinically relevant differences in efficacy or effectiveness among second-generation antidepressants used to treat…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Of the three modalities available for treating native coarctation of the aorta, balloon angioplasty yields less favorable outcomes than surgical correction or stenting,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Porcine surfactant (poractant alfa) may work better than bovine surfactant (beractant) in preterm newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), according to results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A retrospective study found that children diagnosed with biliary atresia had elevated direct or conjugated bilirubin levels soon after they were born, researchers…
