Neonatal Medicine News

After 32 sleep-related deaths were linked to the use of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Sleeper between 2011 and 2018, the AAP has strongly recommended that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, immediately recall the inclined sleeper.

New study results show that neonatal herpes simplex virus infections increased by 56% every year between 2009 and 2015 among children who were insured through Medicaid, resulting in one infection in every 1,886 births.

Through modeling, researchers identified the primate species in the Americas that are most likely to harbor Zika virus and found that those posing the greatest risk live in close proximity to humans, according to a study published in Epidemics.

Infections during pregnancy have been linked to behavioral problems in children. According to recent findings, however, higher levels of the vitamin B nutrient choline can promote greater self-regulation in infants of mothers who experienced infection during gestation.

Preterm infants exhibited similar repertoires of maternal immunoglobulin G as full-term infants, which can protect against viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

A recent study found that black, Hispanic and Asian infants were segregated in NICUs across the United States — a reflection of wider racial segregation in the country, researchers said.

The size of the peanut skin prick test size increased over time in infants at risk for peanut allergy, according to an abstract presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Teenagers and young adults who were exposed to HIV in utero but not infected were more likely to have obesity than those who were not exposed, according to findings presented at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting.

Mothers who smoked during pregnancy improved the size of the fetus by taking higher doses of folic acid, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Although rates of bacterial meningitis are low among neonates and infants, researchers estimated that febrile children in the first month of life are at nearly twice the risk for having bacterial meningitis compared with febrile children aged older than 1 month, according to a meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open.