December 7, 2017
Hospital NICUs are getting an early Christmas present: the ability to opt out on tubing that could put their newborn patients at risk.
October 30, 2017
“Man up” isn’t the advice you’d expect to hear at a policy summit on health care access for mothers and infants. But it’s just what Adam Busby, star of TLC’s “OutDaughtered” and keynote speaker at the third annual Infant Health Summit, felt during his struggle with postpartum depression.
October 26, 2017
For the third year in a row, the Institute for Patient Access and National Coalition for Infant…
September 27, 2017
New treatment guidelines convey a startling reality: hepatitis C isn’t only a baby boomer problem anymore.
May 18, 2017
Long considered an affliction of the baby boomer generation, hepatitis C now has spiked among a surprising new population: young people.
April 25, 2017
Robin Rogers was 35 weeks pregnant when she began to suffer from significant vomiting and dehydration. She was admitted to the hospital near her home in Kansas. To correct her fluid and nutrition levels, Robin had two tubes placed: one, a feeding tube; the other a PICC line, often used to draw blood or deliver antibiotics.
March 24, 2017
A vaccine for Zika virus is in the works with the potential to halt the devastating disease that’s spread to more than 5,000 people and 1,600 pregnant women in the United States alone. But before the drug is even available, a political debate is heating up – not over the drug’s development and accessibility, but over speculation about its future price tag.
March 16, 2017
“Breast is best” is familiar advice for new mothers and infant health care providers. But what about mothers of preemies, who often struggle to produce enough milk for their fragile newborns?
January 31, 2017
Eating fish offers pregnant women nutritional benefits for both themselves and their developing babies. But, looking at newly published advice from the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, you might miss that fact.
January 12, 2017
News on Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump may form a federal panel on vaccine safety prompted outcry from physicians and advocates.
