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AI can detect serious neurologic changes in babies in the NICU using video data alone

A team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers at Mount Sinai trained a deep learning pose-recognition algorithm on video feeds of…

2 months ago

Scientists develop tool to predict sepsis in apparently healthy newborns

A genetic signature in newborns can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms even start to show, according to a new study.…

2 months ago

Rates of sudden unexpected infant death changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

The risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic compared…

3 months ago

Lower neighborhood opportunity may increase risk for preterm birth

A new study suggests that neighborhoods with fewer educational, health, environmental, and socioeconomic resources may increase one's risk for preterm…

3 months ago

The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths

Bats are considered a natural pesticide, widely relied on by farmers as an alternative to chemical pesticides to protect their…

4 months ago

Analysis suggests 2021 Texas abortion ban resulted in increase in infant deaths in state in year after law went into effect

A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers estimates that infant deaths in Texas increased more…

6 months ago

Iron meteorites hint that our infant solar system was more doughnut than dartboard

Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the…

6 months ago

New tool may help prioritize high-risk infants for RSV immunization

On the heels of a shortage of nirsevimab for infant respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) prevention,…

7 months ago

Spike in premature births caused by COVID, halted by vaccines, study finds

COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, but vaccines were key to returning the early birth rate to pre-pandemic…

1 year ago