Displaying items by tag: division of neonatology

New research in mice points to a significant role for fungi to shape metabolism, including fat deposition, and metabolic hormones.
UAB researchers led a large multiple-country study and used advanced machine learning techniques for risk prediction of neonatal deaths. The study reveals that low weight among newborn infants is associated strongly to most deaths in underdeveloped settings and suggests how these deaths can be reduced.
The grant awarded to Kent Willis, M.D., will further his research in bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic lung disease that is a common complication of premature birth.
Two treatments given together before birth —  magnesium sulfate and corticosteroids — can improve outcomes in preterm children.
Higher-volume feedings were determined to help postnatal growth in preterm infants.
In a study led by a UAB neonatologist, findings showed that racial and ethnic disparities in preterm infants decreased.   
A UAB doctor who lives in Zambia has raised thousands of dollars to create and distribute more than 16,000 face shields to health care workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ten years after moving into a world-class facility, UAB’s women’s health services are helping more women than ever.
This microbiome signature suggests that bacteria, or bacterial products, colonize the lungs far before birth.
A first-of-its-kind newborn mouse model will permit study of how to protect extremely low birth-weight infants from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD.  
Researchers found that prolonged oxygen supplementation adversely affected the development of memory function in preterm infants.
When a couple decided to get married in their newborn daughter’s RNICU room, the UAB community came together to pull off their wedding.
A deployed father traveled 7,600 miles across 11 time zones to meet his son in UAB's Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Wellness and healing for RNICU moms comes in many forms, including sewing Halloween costumes for their infants through UAB’s Institute for Arts in Medicine program.
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