Climate change and chemical exposure can damage newborns' hearts, say experts
The complex interplay of rising temperatures and exposure to polluting compounds and chemicals can damage children's hearts, experts have warned.
Apr 18, 2024
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The complex interplay of rising temperatures and exposure to polluting compounds and chemicals can damage children's hearts, experts have warned.
Apr 18, 2024
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Treatment for infants who have severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is sometimes limited. Because they haven't physically matured, a procedure could increase the risk of serious complications, including failure of ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Ochsner Children's Hospital, ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for pediatric cardiology and congenital heart surgery, is raising awareness of the need for more pediatric-specific heart devices.
Feb 21, 2024
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Jonathan Awori, MD, MS, MFA, isn't embarrassed to say it took him a long time to completely understand the intricate workings of the heart. He says he isn't alone; many aspiring doctors and nurses don't immediately grasp ...
Jan 24, 2024
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University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could predict the risk of cardiac arrest in children hospitalized in cardiac intensive care units.
Aug 9, 2023
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People born with heart defects may face a nearly ninefold higher lifetime risk for heart failure and develop it decades earlier than people born without heart abnormalities, new research shows.
Dec 19, 2022
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A point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) program should be developed for use in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a clinical report published online Nov. 28 in Pediatrics.
Nov 28, 2022
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Race was already known to matter when it came to health outcomes for infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect, affecting 1 in 100 live births. In the first year of life, African Americans ...
Aug 27, 2022
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department at Nemours Children's Health System in Delaware with mysterious symptoms in what would later be identified as one ...
Sep 9, 2020
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A paper and two editorials by University at Buffalo pediatrics researchers call attention to key issues in health care that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light; they also recommend guidelines for evaluating and treating ...
Jul 1, 2020
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