Neonatal Medicine News

Prenatal exposure in the 1960s and ’70s to dicyclomine, a component of the anti-nausea drug Bendectin, increased the risk for colorectal cancer in adult offspring, according to data reported in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

Newborn drug testing for low-risk patients was ordered by clinicians more frequently for Black vs. white newborns both before and after legalization of recreational cannabis use, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

The rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths increased significantly among Black children in 2020, possibly because of COVID-19, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

Researchers reviewed a decade of maternal and congenital syphilis cases at a Brooklyn hospital and identified two variables associated with infection: racial identities other than Black or white and low socioeconomic status.

During a military deployment to Iraq, a 14-month-old male in a refugee camp presented to sick call (Figure 1) for evaluation of a minor upper respiratory tract infection

SEATTLE — Recently published recommendations for the prevention of pediatric HIV infection say people with HIV should be counseled about infant feeding prior to conception or as early as possible in pregnancy.

Cannabis use early in pregnancy was associated with adverse placenta-mediated maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

In pregnancies with type 2 diabetes, metformin plus insulin did not reduce risks for adverse neonatal outcomes compared with placebo plus insulin, according to findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

A study of 112 infant deaths found that 41% were associated with a genetic disease, a higher rate than previously recognized, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

There was a sustained decrease in pertussis cases among young infants in the years after maternal Tdap vaccination was introduced in the United States, according to the results of a CDC study published in JAMA Pediatrics.