Neonatal Medicine News

Rural counties in the United States — especially the least-populated, most remote counties — continue to lose basic obstetric services, according to a study published in JAMA.

Certain antidepressants appeared associated with specific birth defects, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Results from two trials published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine “offer hope” in the ongoing search for a way to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, an expert said.

In updated guidance, the AAP said it no longer recommends separating newborns from mothers infected with COVID-19 — a precaution that was included in the initial guidance issued in April, when less was known about COVID-19 and newborns.

“Hepatitis-free future.” is this year’s World Hepatitis Day theme. The focus is the prevention of hepatitis B transmission between mothers and newborns.

A partnership between a health system and a Medicaid payer increased postpartum visits among high-risk, low-income new mothers in New York City, according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health.

Pregnant women who engaged in moderate levels of exercise increased a compound in their breast milk that may lower their offspring’s risks for serious health problems like CVD or diabetes, researchers reported in Nature Metabolism.

In a cohort of pregnant women with prior maternal congenital heart block, hydroxychloroquine successfully reduced the risk for recurrent fetal blocks by more than 50%, according results from the PATCH trial.

The results of five randomized controlled trials showed greater and faster rates of virologic suppression among pregnant women with HIV who took dolutegravir compared to those who took efavirenz, researchers reported at AIDS 2020.

A small study of 31 pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection provided data that are “strongly suggestive” of the possibility of in utero vertical transmission of the novel coronavirus, a researcher said.