Background: Neonatal mortality and morbidity are gender-biased in low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. The male disadvantage theory has been suggested to be responsible for these maturational differences.

Screening for severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is integral to newborn care. Predischarge risk assessment relies on documentation of visual jaundice: age at onset and progression; identification of ...

For many newborn babies, an enzyme that breaks down the molecule bilirubin doesn't activate right away. The resulting bilirubin buildup can lead to jaundice, a typically harmless condition that causes ...

A smartphone application designed to identify jaundice in newborns was found to have a similar success rate as the most commonly used conventional screening method. Researchers found that Neonatal ...

Neonatal jaundice is a condition in which there is an abnormal elevation in serum bilirubin levels in a newborn infant. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment, created during the breakdown of senescent red ...

According to Dr. Bajrang Agarwal, director of neonatal-perinatal medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, “Neonatal jaundice is a common and usually harmless condition ...

No further areas of the guideline will be updated at this time. This surveillance proposal does not impact on the previous decision to update the NICE guideline on total serum bilirubin (TSB) ...

Sequelae of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia constitute a substantial disease burden in areas where effective conventional phototherapy is unavailable. We previously found that the use of filtered ...

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A protein that inhibits the enzyme that breaks down bilirubin in newborns has now been identified by researchers. Methods that block this inhibitor, and thus restore the enzyme’s activity, could ...