Neonatal Medicine News

Adults who were born preterm or with low birth weight are less likely to have sexual intercourse, romantic partnerships or to become parents than adults who were born full term, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

A clinical report recently published in Pediatrics on the management and prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal disease affirmed the AAP’s support for testing all pregnant women for GBS so that antibiotic therapy can be given during labor to prevent transmission to newborns.

Findings from a prospective cohort study of healthy infants suggest with toxigenic Clostridiodes difficile, or TCD, immune response against the toxins “natural immunization.

Low levels of vitamin D at birth or in early childhood were associated with elevated risk for high systolic BP in childhood and adolescence, researchers reported.

Although women who used mood stabilizers were at increased risk for placenta-mediated pregnancy complications, study data showed that this increased risk was most likely not because of the treatment.

Some of the most commonly used devices for infants — car seats, swings, bouncy seats, strollers, carriers or any device that inhibits a young child’s chance to roll, move, wiggle and kick — pose a risk for motor skill delay, plagiocephaly and/or torticollis, conditions that collectively, make up container baby syndrome, a clinical therapist told Healio Primary Care.

Researchers have developed a population-based pharmacokinetic model to identify target levels for vancomycin treatment so that infants infected with Staphylococcus aureus receive effective therapy.

Approximately 5% of infants with possible congenital Zika virus exposure had defects at birth potentially associated with the infection, according to results from a New York City cohort published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Adults born preterm or early term have an increased risk for ischemic heart disease, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

There was an estimated global total of 376.4 million new chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis and syphilis infections in men and women aged 15 to 49 years in 2016, averaging out to more than 1 million new infections daily, according to the latest WHO data.