Neonatal Medicine News

According to the CDC, the United States reported a record number of STD cases for the 6th consecutive year in 2019. CDC data also show that 68 million STIs occurred in the U.S. in 2018 alone.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced initiatives that he said will improve the lives of low-income mothers and lower U.S. maternal morbidity and mortality rates, which are among the highest in developed and high-income countries.

Results of a three-armed trial demonstrated that dolutegravir-based ART regimens are favorable to efavirenz-based regimens among pregnant women with HIV, according to data presented recently at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

Preterm birth is associated with an increased risk for heart failure into adulthood, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Pregnant and lactating women who received the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had similar levels of vaccine-induced antibody titers compared with nonpregnant controls, according to new study results.

Women continued to excrete THC in breast milk for at least 6 weeks after abstaining from using marijuana, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Children who were overweight and had low-level prenatal lead exposure may have worsened kidney function later in life, according to research published in Environment International.

Children born to mothers who used opioids and macrolide antibiotics do not have increased risks for major birth defects, according to two studies published in the BMJ.

A new study will evaluate remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment in pregnant women, the NIH said.

Temporarily separating mothers with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 from their newborns and disrupting skin-to-skin care, rooming-in and direct breastfeeding was “associated with harm and may be unnecessary,” according to researchers.