News tagged with neonatal infections

Researchers find gram-negative rods in two Philippine neonatal intensive care units

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a high frequency of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods (GNRs) in two of the largest neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the city of Manila, Philippines. ...

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Beyond Traditional Borders wins Science magazine's IBI Prize

Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University's hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cold spots contaminated in high humidity incubators

Microbes in human incubators, like those found in neonatal intensive care units, grow most robustly on cold spots when the relative humidity is at least 60 percent, according to a paper in the December 2011 issue of the journal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides

Recent work from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna confirms that sulfonamides can be used to control coccidiosis in piglets, although not without considerable effort and expense. In contrast, the drug toltrazuril ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treating newborn horses: A unique form of pediatrics

Like any other newborn, the neonatal horse can be a challenging patient. Its immune system is still under construction, its blood chemistry can vary wildly, and – like most infants – it wants to ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Solving the puzzle of Henry VIII

Blood group incompatibility between Henry VIII and his wives could have driven the Tudor king's reproductive woes, and a genetic condition related to his suspected blood group could also explain Henry's dramatic ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Medical mystery endures: Black babies at twice risk of whites for death, study indicates

African-American women are significantly more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than white women, in an enduring medical mystery. It exists at all income and education levels, but is widest among more affluent, ...

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created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scheduled deliveries raise risks for mothers, do not benefit newborns

Inducing labor without a medical reason is associated with negative outcomes for the mother, including increased rates of cesarean delivery, greater blood loss and an extended length of stay in the hospital, and does not ...

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created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Third trimester group B streptococcus test doesn't accurately predict presence during labor

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that many women are having different ...

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created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds magnesium sulfate may offer protection from cerebral palsy

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that showed that in rats, the use of magnesium ...

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created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to worm infection in the womb may protect against eczema, study suggests

Exposure to worm infections in the womb may protect a newborn infant from developing eczema, a study funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests. A large trial in Uganda showed that treating a pregnant woman for worm infections ...

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