Diabetes in infancy has different characteristics depending on mutation subtype, and is associated with high frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), according to a report published online Aug. 4 in Diabetes Care.
Read More at Physician's Briefing.
Appalachia’s Gap With Rest of U.S. in Life Expectancy Is Growing
Life expectancy in Appalachia, a region that stretches from Mississippi to New York, lags behind the rest of the U.S. - and the divide is widening, a new study suggests.
Read More at Medscape.
S.C. Taps Private Donors To Expand In-Home Services For At-Risk Moms
Deona Scott was 24 and in her final semester at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina when she found out she was pregnant. She turned to Medicaid for maternity health coverage and learned about a free program for first-time mothers that could connect her with a nurse to answer questions about pregnancy and caring for her baby.
Read more at Kaiser Health News.
Sherman nurse's 'wait to bathe' newborns policy adopted by hospitals
Courtney Buss, like many first-time mothers, wanted all the white, goopy film washed off her baby immediately after delivery. Three years later, Buss said she knows better.
Read more at The Chicago Tribune.
E coli, GBS responsible for 64% of neonatal bacterial meningitis
Bacterial meningitis contracted within the first 90 days of life was most commonly attributed to infection from Escherichia coli and group B Streptococcus, each accounting approximately one-third of cases, according to research published in Pediatrics.
Read more at Healio.
Babies' DNA affects mothers' risk of pre-eclampsia in pregnancy, study finds
A major new international study has revealed for the first time that some features in a baby's DNA can increase the risk of its mother developing pre-eclampsia -- a potentially dangerous condition in pregnancy.
Read more at Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170619120825.htm
NY State Program on Breastfeeding Beats National Goals (MMWR)
More than 80% of infants who enrolled in a special supplemental nutrition program for women and children in New York City began breastfeeding -- which initially exceeded national breastfeeding goals, said CDC researchers.
Read more at MedPage Today.
Penn tests new app designed for nurses, mothers of ICU newborns
Last month, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Intensive Care Nursery, which manages breast milk for almost half a million newborn babies in critical care, began testing out a new management system to make the lives of nurses – and new mothers – a lot easier.
Keriton is an app designed by nurses and moms to monitor inventory of breast milk and serve as a communication method between new mothers and the hospital.
Learn more at The Philly Voice.
AAP urges disaster preparation plans for NICUs
Neonatologists and other providers within neonatal intensive care units are critical for the creation of emergency preparedness plans, including the development of appropriate staffing to ensure safe and effective care during a disaster, according to joint recommendations from the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council and the Committee on Fetus and Newborn.
Read more at Healio.
Premature babies at higher risk of heart failure
Babies born prematurely run a higher risk of heart failure during childhood and adolescence than those born at full term, says a study.
"We found that the risk of heart failure was higher for individuals born preterm, and inversely correlated with duration of pregnancy, in that the earlier you're born, the greater the risk," said study lead author Hanna Carr, doctoral student at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Read more at Business Standard.
Vaccinating pregnant women year-round may cut flu in babies
Babies born to women vaccinated throughout the year against flu virus are more likely to be healthier and have reduced incidence of influenza, according to a study.
The findings, published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that vaccinating pregnant mothers year-round is likely to reduce infant flu virus infection rates by an average of 30 per cent, increase birth weights by 15 per cent and result in babies having less influenza.
Read more at Business Standard.
New Approaches Help Babies Get Through Opioid Withdrawal
SAN FRANCISCO -- Letting mothers and babies room together in the hospital and using methadone or buprenorphine instead of morphine led to shorter stays and other benefits for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), researchers reported here.
Read more at MedPage Today.
Omaha woman who had Zika virus while pregnant gives birth to healthy baby girl
An Omaha woman who had the Zika virus while pregnant gave birth Tuesday to a healthy baby, alleviating concern that the child would be born with a birth defect.
Evelyn Suastegui was the first pregnant woman in Nebraska to have a confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus.
Read more at Live Well Nebraska.
Cleveland Clinic Children's NICUs becomes first in region to give families live webcam access
CLEVELAND - A new addition to Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital aims to give parents who have babies born prematurely greater peace of mind.
The Clinic's Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) will get a new web camera system, becoming the first NICUs in the region to get the system. The Clinic will launch the 86 NicView cameras at Hillcrest Hospital and other main campus locations.
Read more at News 5 Cleveland.
Breastfeeding Plays Key Role in Ensuring Healthy Infant Gut
MONDAY, May 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Breastfeeding can seed good bacteria in an infant's digestive system, according to research published online May 8 in JAMA Pediatrics.
Grace Aldrovandi, M.D., a professor of pediatrics and chief of infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles, Mattel Children's Hospital, and colleagues assessed 107 breastfeeding mother-infant pairs.
Read more at Physician's Briefing.
Artificial Womb Could Offer New Hope for Premature Babies
Marking what could be a vital development for treating premature babies, researchers announced today that eight fetal lambs survived and grew inside an artificial womb for four weeks, the longest an animal has done so.
Read more at National Geographic.
Epilepsy: Another Potential Zika Threat to Babies
MONDAY, April 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Beyond its known links to birth defects and other problems, the Zika virus may also trigger cases of epilepsy in infants, warn experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Among 48 babies from Brazil with probable congenital Zika infection, "50 percent reportedly had clinical seizures," said Dr. Daniel Pastula, Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp and Rosemarie Kobau.
Read more at Consumer Health Days.
More Wrong-Patient Orders in NICU Versus Non-NICU Ped Units
FRIDAY, April 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of wrong-patient orders is higher in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) versus non-NICU pediatric units, and the risk of errors can be reduced with interventions, according to a study published online April 21 in Pediatrics.
Read more at Physician's Briefing.
Don't Give Kids Cough Syrup Or Pain Meds That Contain Codeine, FDA Says
The Food and Drug Administration says children under 12 should not be given prescription medicines that contain codeine or another narcotic, tramadol, and that such drugs can also be dangerous to youth between 12 and 18.
Read more at NPR.
Black U.S. babies still more likely to die than white infants
(Reuters Health) - Even as infant mortality rates are declining nationwide, there are some U.S. states where black babies are much more likely to die than white infants, a recent study suggests.
Overall, infant mortality rates decreased 13 percent in the U.S. from 2000 to 2013, the study found. By the end of this period, however, the black infant mortality rate was 11.1 deaths for every 1,000 live births, compared with just 5.1 deaths for every 1,000 white newborns. The rate is calculated based on the number of babies who die before their first birthday.
Read more at Reuters Health.