Neonatal Medicine News

WASHINGTON — A MRSA PCR nasal swab showed promise as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship in a large study of pediatric critical care patients, according to findings presented here at IDWeek.

WASHINGTON — Some infants with in utero or early life exposure to SARS-CoV-2 had borderline to low developmental scores, a study found, and this was most common among babies born to mothers with symptomatic COVID-19.

The FDA Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 14-1 to remove a drug indicated for preventing preterm birth from the market due to lack of effectiveness.

Antidepressant use in pregnancy was not associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Women with cardiomyopathy were more likely to experience adverse outcomes such as stillbirth compared with women who had noncardiomyopathy cardiac disease or no cardiac disease, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The rate of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers of neonates fell 11 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels at a large hospital in California, according to data presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

The FDA announced it approved a vaccine administered during the third trimester of pregnancy to prevent pertussis — whooping cough — in infants younger than 2 months of age.

Paternal and maternal use of 5-aminosalicylic acid for treatment of Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis before conception and during pregnancy is safe, based on offspring outcomes in a nationwide Danish cohort study.

Study findings published in JAMA Network Open provided evidence to support administering antenatal steroid therapy to pregnant people at risk for delivery at 22 weeks.

A recent perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine explored the effects climate change has already had on the vulnerable population of pregnant people and their children, and what needs to be done to protect them.