Human milk is indisputably the preferred source of nutrition for premature infants given the numerous short-term and long-term benefits. Indeed, one important quality measure for neonatal intensive ...

In a pilot study recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) was administered to 12 neutropenic preterm infants to determine if neonatal neutropenia is secondary to decreased ...

Introduction Neonatal infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Neonatal infection surveillance networks are necessary for defining the epidemiology of infections and monitoring ...

AIMS To prospectively evaluate the iron nutritional status of preterm infants fed either a term (0.5 mg/dl iron) or preterm (0.9 mg/dl) formulas fortified with iron after hospital discharge. METHODS ...

AIMS The ability of oral vitamin K to eliminate all risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding during the first three months of life was studied. METHODS Babies (n=182 000) in the north of England judged ...

Objective Central nervous system (CNS) derived exosomes can be purified from peripheral blood and have been used widely in adult neurological disease. Application to neonatal neurological disease ...

Objective: To establish the range of opinion regarding thresholds at which phototherapy and exchange transfusion are used to treat neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in the UK. Design: A survey of existing ...

AIMS To determine the effect of trophic feeding on clinical outcome in ill preterm infants. METHODS A randomised, controlled, prospective study of 100 preterm infants, weighing less than 1750 g at ...

Born in 1597, Francis was the second son of William Glisson of Rampisham of Dorset. Admitted to Caius College, Cambridge in 1617, he took a degree in Arts in 1620, was incorporated MA at Oxford in ...

OBJECTIVE To explore parents' perceptions of treatment withdrawal and the dying process. DESIGN Face to face interviews with 59 sets of parents of 62 babies in the East of Scotland three months and 13 ...