Being a new parent of a newborn admitted to a neonatal unit is stressful and challenging. A mobile health app designed to inform and support parents with babies in neonatal care is the focus of a Massey University clinical ...
Jun 7, 2019
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A new study from Loyola University Medical Center provides further evidence that female infants tend to do better than males when born prematurely.
Apr 28, 2015
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Opioid use in pregnancy has risen dramatically in recent years, along with the opioid epidemic within the general Canadian population.
Apr 24, 2019
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Parents of premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) receive a dizzying amount of information about their baby's changing weight, respiratory levels, feeding patterns and more.
Jan 20, 2022
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Anxiety is a common emotion experienced by first-time parents, one that is felt even more so among parents of newborns being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Apr 24, 2017
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Parents whose children have lengthy stays in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) dream of one day taking their baby home. But the actual day of NICU discharge can be an overwhelming experience for both families and hospital ...
Sep 15, 2017
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre have designed a therapeutic robot that simulates human skin-to-skin ...
Mar 28, 2019
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(HealthDay) -- Maternal smoking has been identified as a risk factor associated with the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants, according to a study published June 11 in Pediatrics.
Jun 11, 2012
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Extremely preterm infants can suffer from a life-threatening inflammation of the gut. A new clinical study has shown that supplements of a lactic acid bacterium may have positive effects by increasing the diversity of intestinal ...
Mar 11, 2021
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For the first time, scientists have measured the stress levels of fathers of premature babies during the tense transition between the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and home and discovered fathers are more stressed than ...
Dec 4, 2017
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