Neonatal Medicine News

More than half of infants referred to an otolaryngology center for tongue-tie surgery did not need to undergo the procedure after consultation with a speech-language pathologist, according to recent findings.

Syphilis rates in Europe have steadily increased over the past decade, reaching an all-time recorded high in 2017 with more than 33,000 cases, according to data reported by the European CDC.

Pregnant women who consumed a Mediterranean-style diet had a lower risk for gestational diabetes and reported less weight gain, according to findings recently published in PLoS One.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently gave an ‘A’ level recommendation to screening women for hepatitis B during their first prenatal visit, according to a report recently published in JAMA.

Prenatal opioid exposure may negatively impact neurocognitive and physical development, and those effects can last until adolescence, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

According to results from the ongoing Tsepamo study in Botswana, infants born to women who took the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir for HIV infection from conception remained at an elevated risk for neural tube defects, with three in 1,000 born with these conditions. However, the findings, which were presented at the International AIDS Society Conference in Mexico City and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that the risk is significantly lower than previously estimated.

Almost a third of children aged 3 years and younger who were exposed to Zika virus during their mother’s pregnancy had below-average neurological development, a recent study published in Nature Medicine suggests.

Prepregnancy surgery is associated with an increased risk for neonatal abstinence syndrome in later pregnancies, according to study results published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

GE Healthcare has recalled 25,204 Giraffe Infant Warmers and Panda i-Res Infant Warmers manufactured between Oct. 1, 2007, and Feb. 28, 2019, according to a press release from the FDA.

PHILADELPHIA —Women with migraine were more likely to have an infant who is colicky, while fathers with migraine were not, according to study findings presented at the American Headache Society Scientific Meeting.