1 Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 2 Computational Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 3 Division of Infectious ...

AIM To determine the prevalence and clinical significance of murmurs detected during routine neonatal examination. METHODS In a two year prospective study, 7204 newborn babies underwent routine ...

Intraventricular haemorrhage and posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation remain an important challenge in the management of prematurity and are associated with significant permanent morbidity.

Dr Michael Kaplan, Department of Neonatology, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel.Email: kaplan{at}cc.huji.ac.il AIM To determine whether vitamin K1, which is routinely ...

Objectives To determine the incidence of and risk factors for neonatal unit admission, intrapartum stillbirth or neonatal death without admission, and describe outcomes, in babies born in an alongside ...

Department of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, USA Correspondence to Richard A Polin, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, ...

Background: Little is known about exposure of preterm infants to excipients during routine clinical care. Objective: To document excipient exposure in vulnerable preterm babies in a single centre, ...

Introduction Neonatal infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Neonatal infection surveillance networks are necessary for defining the epidemiology of infections and monitoring ...

Objective In the Netherlands, the threshold for offering active treatment for spontaneous birth was lowered from 25+0 to 24+0 weeks’ gestation in 2010. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of ...

Correspondence to Dr Samantha Johnson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22–28 Princess Road West, Leicester LE1 6TP, UK; sjj19{at}le.ac.uk. Design 1130 LMPT and 1255 term-born ...

Objective To explore the effect of donor human milk usage on the emotional experience of mothers with premature infants in a multiracial Asian population. Design A qualitative descriptive study.

In recent years a major focus of attention in the field of infant nutrition has been on the role of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) in the visual and neural development of neonates.1-8 ...