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) – High doses of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) lowered the risk of hay fever in male toddlers born prematurely, researchers from Australia reported online today…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antenatal indomethacin given to prevent preterm labor is associated with a significantly increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, investigators report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnancy, antiepileptic drug (AED) polytherapy that includes valproate poses a higher risk of fetal malformations than therapy without this drug, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with heart failure depends on their QRS interval; CRT does not reduce adverse clinical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For preterm infants undergoing venipuncture, oral sucrose and application of EMLA cream has a greater analgesic effect than sucrose alone, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinicians faced with a case of shoulder dystocia during childbirth should consider delivering the posterior shoulder after they’ve tried the two primary accepted…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Neonates with arterial ischemic stroke are at increased risk for having at least one seizure in the following months, but this may not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When inserting a feeding tube through the nose, a pacifier and a squirt of sugar water can help relieve pain in preterm babies,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –Tetracycline ointment should not be replaced by povidone iodine solution as prophylactic therapy for ophthalmia neonatorum, according to a study from Israel published in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although prophylactic intravenous immune globulin (IVIg) is recommended for neonates with rhesus hemolytic disease, it does not improve outcomes or lessen the need…
