(HealthDay)—Physician recommendations to mothers providing breast milk to children with immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated food allergies are inconsistent, according to a study […]
Early PDA closure may improve outcomes in preterm infants
Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants with moderate to large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) may benefit from transcatheter PDA closure […]
Fetal nicotine exposure harms breathing in infants
Exposure to nicotine during development inhibits the function of neurons controlling the tongue, according to research in newborn rats recently […]
Scientists find protein that could predict deadly disease in infants
Scientists discover a protein that may PREDICT which infants develop a gut infection that kills hundreds of premature babies a […]
Better seizure control with ketogenic diet in infants with genetic epilepsy
Infants and young children with epilepsy due to a confirmed genetic abnormality had a better response to treatment with ketogenic […]
Multiple-birth infants have higher risk of medical mixups in NICU
Multiple-birth infants had a significantly higher risk of wrong-patient order errors compared with singletons in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), […]
How IVF has redefined the modern family
Over 40 years ago, the world’s first “test tube baby” was born. Louise Joy Brown’s conception via in vitro fertilization […]
Infants’ advances in speech processing play role in language-cognition link
A new Northwestern University study provides the first evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their […]
Researchers find febrile infants may not need painful tests, antibiotics, hospitalizations
A national research team led by UC Davis Health clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children’s Hospital […]
Research team first to identify hearing and deaf infants process information differently
Differences in cognitive development between hearing and deaf children start in infancy, according to new research by The Ohio State […]