Neonatal Medicine

A new index that takes neighborhood and community conditions into consideration could be a useful measure for identifying preterm birth risk, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

WASHINGTON — Babies born to Asian and Black mothers are more likely to experience hypothermia, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

The United States met perinatal HIV elimination goals for the first time in 2019, according to a study led by CDC researchers.

For women with preterm pre-labor rupture of membranes, treatment with cefuroxime- vs. ampicillin-roxithromycin was associated with longer pregnancy and less morbidity, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

A study of pregnant people with syphilis found that substance use during pregnancy was nearly twice as common among those who delivered an infant with congenital syphilis than among peers who did not pass the infection to their baby.

A study uncovered significant racial inequities in high-risk infant follow-up programs for extremely low birth weight infants, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Children exposed to benzodiazepines and/or nonbenzodiazepines, also known as z-hypnotics, prenatally may not have increased risk for ADHD, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Exposure to cannabis prenatally was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to a Canadian cohort study published in PLOS ONE.

WASHINGTON — Some infants with in utero or early life exposure to SARS-CoV-2 had borderline to low developmental scores, a study found, and this was most common among babies born to mothers with symptomatic COVID-19.

Study findings published in JAMA Network Open provided evidence to support administering antenatal steroid therapy to pregnant people at risk for delivery at 22 weeks.