Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening bowel infection called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Researchers at Loyola University Health System have identified a marker to identify those at risk for the infection, enabling doctors ...
Tags: NEC, Bowel Infection, ICU, iAP
Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening bowel infection called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Researchers at Loyola University Health System have identified a marker to identify those at risk for the infection, enabling doctors ...
Tags: NEC, iAP, Premature Infant, Necrotizing Enterocolitis
The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 ...
Tags: Respiratory Illness, premature babies, CPAP
In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at 3:15 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting-, in New Orleans, researchers will report on a correlation between initial neonatal and early ...
Tags: Neonatal
Gut bacteria in premature infants don't come from their mothers, but from microbes in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), a new study finds. Babies typically get their gut bacteria from their mothers during childbirth. Premature ...
Tags: Gut bacteria, isolated, prevent infections
Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening bowel infection called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Researchers at Loyola University Health System have identified a marker to identify those infants who are at risk for the infection, ...
Tags: Life-Threatening Bowel Infection, Bowel Infection in Premature Infants
The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Physical contact with babies is essential for their physical and ...
Tags: premature infants, skin-to-skin contact, physical contact
Physicians in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center launched a pilot study in which mothers' breast milk is analyzed to determine whether premature infants are receiving the correct amounts of ...
Tags: premature infants, mothers'breast milk, personalized medicine
A potential new way to identify premature infants at high risk for delays in motor skills development may have been discovered by researchers. The researchers conducted brain scans on 43 infants in the United Kingdom who were born at less ...
Tags: premature infants, motor skills development, motor problems, preemy
Discovery Laboratories, a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard of respiratory critical care, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company's investigational new drug ...
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Discovery Laboratories (DSCO), a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard in respiratory critical care, has initiated the US commercial launch of Surfaxin (lucinactant) Intratracheal Suspension for the ...
Prolacta Bioscience, the pioneer of human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), will hold a grand opening event on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at their new facility in City of ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies born before 37 weeks undergo an assessment called the Infant Car Seat Challenge (ICSC) before discharge from the hospital. This test determines whether a baby is able to safely ride ...
Tags: Infant Car Seat, Car Seat, Auto Parts
Shire, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, has acquired Premacure, a privately held Swedish biotechnology company. Premacure is currently developing a protein replacement therapy to treat retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a rare and ...
Tags: biotechnology company, biopharmaceutical company, biopharmaceutical
Fred Maxik wants to make a light bulb that will help you sleep. "Biological specific lights,” tuned so as not to interfere with an individual’s normal production of melatonin, the hormone secreted from the pineal gland linked to ...
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