Neonatal Medicine News

Research published in Pediatrics suggests that infants aged 60 days and younger with bacteremic UTI could receive shorter courses of parenteral antibiotics without the risk for readmission or recurrent infection.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, issued an advisory to raise awareness — especially among pregnant women and youth — of the harms associated with marijuana use.

Offspring born via cesarean delivery were at increased risk for autism spectrum disorder and ADHD compared with those born by vaginal delivery, findings published in JAMA Network Open revealed.

A review published in Pediatrics revealed gaps and inconsistencies in findings about the outcomes of children exposed to opioids prenatally and those born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.

Infants born to mothers in Washington state who moved during the first trimester were more likely to be born preterm and have low birth weight, according to findings published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Researchers suggested that providers consider screening patients for plans to move.

Research published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology highlighted the usefulness of an antibiotic spectrum index, or ASI, to measure antimicrobial stewardship efforts in a St. Louis NICU.

Every additional day of antibiotic administration in the NICU results in lower anaerobe richness and butyrate producers, with more potential pathogens dominating the gut, study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest.

In utero exposure to common air pollutants appears to be associated with increased odds of NICU admission, according to study results published in Annals of Epidemiology.

Researchers found a dose-dependent association between antibiotic use in infancy and the development of asthma in childhood, regardless of the type of antibiotic administered or the timing of the prescription, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The researchers reported that the odds of future asthma diagnoses increased with each additional antibiotic prescription.

Research published in Pediatrics suggested that more than 50% of infants born preterm in Washington State did not receive all recommended vaccinations in the seven-vaccine series by age 19 months. Preterm infants were also less likely than term infants to be fully vaccinated by age 36 months.