The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the implementation guidance in the Southeast Asia Region, emphasizing universal screening of newborns for hearing impairment, eye abnormalities, and neonatal jaundice.
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 5: In a heart-wrenching appeal, Pratibha Gaur reaches out to the community for crowdfunding support as her premature twins battle for their lives in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Yashoda Hospital and Research Centre in Ghaziabad.
Born a premature baby with acute neonatal jaundice and hemiplegia, Devika Malik was paralysed on one side of the body.
Despite her disability, nothing could stop Devika from becoming an international para-athlete.
A proud mother and a champion of para-sports herself, Deepa Malik beams wit
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 24: Manipal Hospitals, one of the leading healthcare providers in India, today announced the alliance with the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and British Training Academy (BTA). Dr. Manish Rai, Hospital Director, of Manipal
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 23: On 17th November is celebrated as "World Prematurity Day" to commemorate the significance of premature births. Recognizing the global efforts, Sri Ramakrishna Hospital offers state of the art facilities and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to
Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health that the doctors in the neonatal ward are now being forced to carry out artificial respiration by hand on the 36 babies that they are treating in the hospital.
Working as health workers under the Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Programme these women are surviving on merely a monthly remuneration of 8,000 Pakistani Rupees.
Premature neonates in neonatal care units are extremely sensitive to potentially lethal infections. To help keep these babies safe, the risk of infection must be maintained to a minimum.
Premature babies in neonatal care units are very sensitive and susceptible to potentially fatal illnesses. To help keep these babies safe, the danger of infection must be kept as low as possible.
A particular problem is late-onset sepsis which starts from three days after birth, when bacter
Miss World Karolina Bielawska, who is currently in India and exploring the country, recently visited the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune. She expressed her admiration for the medical staff at the hospital and also said that she is overwhelmed with
Crohn's disease-like ileitis, a condition marked by chronic intestinal inflammation and progressive tissue damage, researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago discovered that direct injection of neonatal mesenchymal stem cells, derived from heart tissue removed
This new study focused on a subpopulation of E. coli with a specific capsule - the extracellular barrier that surrounds a bacterium - known as K1. E. coli with this form of capsule has been linked to invasive illnesses such as bloodstream or kidney infections, as well as neonatal meningitis.