Neonatal/Perinatology

A short window of action exists for the newborn with suspected sepsis. With little time and less-than-perfect lab studies, are CRP values the added clue you need to arrive at a diagnosis?

Postpartum depression has been linked to choosing bottle feeding over breastfeeding, according to an evolutionary psychologist?s research.

A 7-month-old boy is brought in with brown warty plaques on his faces, along the lines of Blaschko.

An infant with failure to thrive and vomiting is eventually diagnosed with hypertrophic, dilated bladder and bilateral hydronephrosis.

A female infant is found to have mild grade one bilateral hydronephrosis and a nearly four centimeter cyst in the pelvis near the bladder

Late preterm infants were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed with cerebral palsy as full term babies, according to research forthcoming in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Procalcitonin levels may be useful to detect serious bacterial infections in febrile infants.

A reader offers his perspective on habitual bottle and sippy cup use by infants and toddlers.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that non-hazardous amounts of melamine have been detected in US-made infant formula, reported Reuters.

The United States received a "D", and only one state received a grade higher than a "C", in the first March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card.

Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals company is voluntarily recalling approximately 12,000 units of Infants' Mylicon Gas Relief Dye-Free Drops (simethicone-antigas), according to the FDA.

Almost one third of women participating in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program report sharing a bed with their infant, as reported in the October Journal of Pediatrics.

The rate of US infant deaths decreased by 2% in 2006, but is still not lower than that of other industrialized countries, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.

Study: Should herpes simplex virus be considered in the differential diagnosis of neonatal fever and hypothermia?

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of more than 1,000 retail markets which may have brought Chinese infant formula into the U.S. yielded no such items, the FDA stated.

Bacteria or fungi in a mother's amniotic fluid may play a larger role in premature birth than previously believed, according to the August 26 PLoS One.

Pain treatments that contain codeine may not be safe for all mothers who breastfeed their infants, according to a report in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to NeoChild for alleged misbranding of its neonatal devices and procedural errors.

The majority of mothers who breastfeed discontinue the practice before the baby is 6 months old, according to a national survey by Brigham Young University.

Vitamin D deficiency may be predicted by breastfeeding without vitamin D supplementation.

A survey of more than 400 pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapists has found that two-thirds of therapists reported seeing a rise in early motor delays in infants in the past six years.

An analysis published in the online Journal of Pediatrics identified the potential risks for infants associated with being placed in a bassinet.

While maternal obesity does not appear to impact infant mortality among whites, the opposite may be true among blacks, according to the June Obstretics & Gynecology.

Factors linked to sleep loss among six-month-old infants include maternal depression, breastfeeding, and a lower socioeconomic status, according to recent findings.

A 4-day-old girl was brought to the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of a copious discharge from the right eye with associated swelling and redness of the eyelid (Figure 1). The discharge began 2 days earlier and had become profuse and yellow-green. Chemosis and injection of the conjunctiva of the right eye were also noted (Figure 2).

The mother of a 6-week-old infant is concerned about a generalized, scaly eruption evident over the past 10 days.

In a study of nearly 7 million live births, researchers have found that preterm babies are more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term babies.

The immune system of babies may be negatively impacted if their mothers are stressed during pregnancy, according to findings presented at the 2008 American Thoracic Society International Conference in Toronto.

The benefits of nonpharmacologic therapy for infant GERD.

A study released by the CDC discovered that 91,278 nonfatal cases of abuse and neglect among children younger than age 1 occurred in the 2006 fiscal year, and 32.7% of these cases involved infants a week old or younger.