Neonatal Medicine News

A 14-day-old female was taken to an urgent care clinic with multiple paronychia, involving a thumb and both great toes, that began 5 days earlier.

A neonatal seizures task force established by the International League Against Epilepsy, or ILAE, published a new classification and framework for neonatal seizures that aligns with the ILAE’s 2017 classification of seizures and epilepsies.

A Finnish study involving more than 300 children found that oral HPV was prevalent in nearly 23% of newborns and persisted in approximately 15% of children for a mean of about 20 months, researchers reported in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

According to the CDC, more than 9,300 women with COVID-19 have completed pregnancies in the United States.

A WHO working group said this week that it found “limited evidence” concerning the timing of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 or the extent to which it happens, although studies have demonstrated that it is possible.

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to die from the novel coronavirus than nonpregnant individuals similar in age, according to research published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Infant night waking was moderately associated with postpartum depression symptoms, a cross-sectional analysis of a survey conducted in Finland showed.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the United States implemented measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in labor and delivery units.

A healthy 12-day old female seems to suddenly develop painless bilateral swelling of both the preauricular areas and the right postauricular area. There is no fever or other concerning symptoms, and her appetite is normal and unchanged.

Although maternal oxygen supplementation during labor and delivery is common to prevent hypoxia and acidemia in the fetus, it may be unnecessary, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.