Neonatal Medicine News

Pregnant women who participated in weekly wellness classes were half as likely to be depressed up to 8 years later, compared with women who received standard care, researchers reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Children who were exposed to Zika virus in utero may demonstrate developmental differences into preschool age, even if they did not have congenital Zika syndrome, according to a study published in Pediatric Research.

New data published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that buprenorphine use during pregnancy was associated with a lower risk for adverse neonatal outcomes compared with methadone use.

Use of cannabis among individuals who are pregnant was more common among those living in areas with greater retail availability, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Exposure to cannabis prenatally was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to a Canadian cohort study published in PLOS ONE.

Drinking any amount of alcohol during pregnancy was associated with changes and delays in fetal brain development, according to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

Even in cases of mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, severe disseminated intravascular coagulation was a possibility for pregnant people, findings from a retrospective case series show.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

Histologically and clinically active inflammatory bowel disease increased the risk for preterm birth, especially for women with ulcerative colitis, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON — Neonates with sepsis were exposed to more antibiotics throughout their NICU admissions than controls and were found to have microbiome dysbiosis, researchers reported.