Neonatal Medicine News

From 2010 to 2017, estimated rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome and maternal opioid use disorder significantly increased across the United States, data show.

Three years after Oregon implemented Medicaid expansion in 2014, the proportion of women in the state who initiated prenatal care in their first trimester had increased by 1.5 percentage points, data published in Preventive Medicine showed.

Adults who were born prematurely may be at an elevated risk for premature death from all causes, as well as death from noncommunicable diseases such as CVD, chronic lung disease and diabetes, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

In the United States, almost a third of deliveries in 2018 — 31.9% — were completed via cesarean section, according to the CDC.

Infected mothers appear to be “unlikely” to spread SARS-CoV-2 to newborns while rooming-in, Italian researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

Higher hemoglobin thresholds for red-cell transfusions in extremely-low-birth-weight infants with anemia did not improve their survival without neurodevelopmental impairment, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may not lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

After decades of inactivity following a deadly vaccine failure in the 1960s, “there’s been good progress” lately in research to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, according to a speaker at the Infectious Diseases in Children symposium.

The 33-year-old Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held virtually for the first time on Nov. 21 and 22.

When given to women in low-resource countries who are at risk for early preterm birth, dexamethasone can significantly boost the survival of premature babies, data published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed.