New recommendations on emergency neonatal blood transfusions have been issued by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) following a number of serious adverse outcomes including brain injury ...

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is a disorder that affects pregnant people and their fetuses. It occurs when the birthing parent’s immune system produces antibodies that attack and destroy ...

Pregnant women have been discovered to be especially vulnerable to respiratory pathogens, and they are more likely to require critical care and die from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

When a newborn has polycythemia, it means they have too many red blood cells. A doctor typically diagnoses polycythemia using a hematocrit test. Polycythemia can lead to thickening of the blood and ...

The ongoing monkeypox outbreak was recently declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. 1 Young children are at risk for severe disease; ...

Manipal: In a step towards improving newborn care, researchers in Mangaluru developed a low-cost, smartphone-based device ...