Neonatal Medicine News

A 5-day-old female is transferred from another hospital due to irritability and a worsening pustular rash. The mother’s pregnancy, labor and delivery was complicated by a group B strep-positive culture and vaginal candidiasis.

Craniosynostosis — the premature joining of bones in an infant’s skull — may be caused by an abnormal excess of a previously unknown type of bone-forming stem cell, according to findings from a preclinical study reported in Nature.

Minimally invasive surfactant therapy did not reduce a composite outcome of death and neurodevelopmental disability before age 2 years among preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome who are on continuous positive airway pressure.

Traffic-related pollutant exposure during pregnancy may negatively impact autophagy in healthy newborns, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Findings from a retrospective study revealed that preterm infant mortality in the United States improved in all prematurity categories from 1995 to 2020; however, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in this mortality continued.

Medications for opioid use disorder help mothers keep well-child visits in their infant’s first year of life, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Maternal hepatitis B virus serostatus was not associated with pregnancy outcomes in infertile women in China who underwent freeze-thaw embryo transfer, according to data in JAMA Network Open.

Despite the growing prevalence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants, there are no approved prevention drugs to reduce the risk for this condition.

Croup symptoms improved when children were exposed to 30 minutes of outdoor cold air in addition to receiving a steroid, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial published in Pediatrics.

The prevalence of maternal hepatitis C virus infection has significantly increased in the U.S. since the start of the opioid epidemic in 1998, according to results from a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.