... Abstract Newborn infants, especially those born preterm, are at risk of infections in early life. In preterm infants, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating inflammatory gut condition, and late-onset sepsis (LOS) are important causes of serious morbidity and are the commonest reasons...

... a predominately infectious to an immune basis [ 1 ]. For example, there has been a striking increase in allergic and autoimmune diseases. This shift and increase in disease has been attributed to the nature of initial bacterial colonization of the newborn intestine, a revision of the so-called “hygiene hypothesis...

... with hearing loss to reach their full potential. Since the adoption of universal newborn hearing screening in the United States and other parts of the world, many infants with congenital hearing loss have received a diagnosis shortly after birth and benefited from early intervention programs by 6 months of age...

... Abstract Maternal undernutrition affects a large proportion of women in many developing countries, but has received little attention as an important determinant of poor maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) outcomes such as intrauterine growth restriction, preterm birth (PTB), and maternal...

... Abstract Tandem mass spectrometry has been the main driver behind a significant expansionin newborn screening programs. The ability to detect more than 40 conditions by a singletest underscores the need to better understand the clinical and laboratory characteristicsof the conditions being...

... Abstract abstractWe examined the hypothesis that surfactant secretion is controlled at the apical membrane of granular pneumocytes by an influx of calcium from the alveolar lining liquid. Lung distension and stimulation of secretion was produced by saline lavage in freshly killed newborn rabbit...