Neonatal Medicine News

Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP, a practitioner in the division of primary care pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital, noted that "hyperbilirubinemia is very common."

A psychosocial intervention delivered via a mobile app reduced distress and helped prepare pregnant women and their partners after a fetal diagnosis of congenital heart disease, according to data from a pilot study.

Pregnant patients with COVID-19 who were hospitalized for symptomatic disease were more likely to deliver during their stay if they were admitted to the hospital during non-omicron pandemic waves, data showed.

For people giving birth to twins, the gestational weight gain range with the lowest risk for adverse perinatal outcomes was similar among those with a pre-pregnancy BMI of underweight or normal weight.

Children conceived through assisted reproductive technology — or ART — were “shorter, lighter and thinner” compared with naturally conceived children at birth through early adolescence, data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Compared with women who did not have SARS-CoV-2, those who were infected during the third trimester of pregnancy had a higher risk for preterm birth, data in PLoS One showed.

A higher concentration of urinary phthalate metabolites in pregnant women is associated with a higher risk for preterm birth, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will compromise standard neurological care for approximately 40 million women in as many as 28 states, educators wrote in JAMA Neurology.

Treatment with ketamine significantly improved seizure occurrence related to refractory status epilepticus in both neonates and children, according to results of a study published in Neurology.

High-dose erythropoietin failed to lower the risk for death among newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, according to study findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.