Neonatal Medicine News

Preterm and early-term birth rates in the United States rose from 2014 to 2022 while rates of late- and post-term births declined, according to a report published this week by the CDC.

Early-life exposure to screens and digital media was associated with higher odds of atypical sensory processing in a study of nearly 1,500 children, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

More babies born at 22 weeks’ gestation in England and Wales received respiratory life support after a new national guidance recommendation was published in 2019, according to results published in BMJ Medicine.

Three or more doses of maternal COVID-19 vaccine significantly enhance antibody concentrations in preterm infants compared with two or fewer doses, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA said this week that it is working with a French pharmaceutical company to temporarily import into the United States an antibiotic that can treat syphilis as a way to address the country’s penicillin shortage.

Hybrid SARS-CoV-2 immunity in pregnancy — immunity from a prior infection plus vaccination — is associated with a greater likelihood of protection at delivery for mothers and infants compared with a prior infection alone, a study found.

Assessing formerly extremely preterm infants at a corrected age of 21 to 24 months is associated with higher odds of detecting a significant developmental delay than assessing them at an earlier time, a study published in Pediatrics found.

Infants and toddlers faced socio-emotional development delays during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.

Maternal influenza vaccination during pregnancy was associated with reduced chances of influenza-associated ED visits or hospitalizations in infants aged younger than 6 months, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.