OBJECTIVES Primary: to compare sequential and simultaneous breast pumping on volume of milk expressed and its fat content. Secondary: to measure the effect of breast massage on milk volume and fat ...

Objective To investigate any possible effect of cooling on seizure burden, the authors quantified the recorded electrographic seizure burden based on multichannel video-EEG recordings in term neonates ...

AIM To time the onset of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in patients (n=39) with CMV associated neonatal cholestasis by analysing CMV DNA on Guthrie cards sampled at 3 days of age. METHODS CMV ...

The surveillance of congenital anomalies serves two main purposes: to facilitate the identification of teratogenic (malformation causing) exposures and to assess the impact of primary prevention and ...

Correspondence to Dr Brigitte Lemyre, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Newborn Care, The Ottawa Hospital, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Canada K1H 8L6; blemyre{at}toh.on.ca Aim To assess the ...

Objective: To develop a tool for predicting survival to term in babies born more than 8 weeks early using only information available at or before birth. Design: 1456 non-malformed very preterm babies ...

Correspondence to Dr Floris Groenendaal, Department of Neonatology, Room number KE.04.123.1, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Lundlaan 6, 3584 EA Utrecht, The ...

2 School of Life Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Merryl E Harvey, Department of Health, Birmingham City University, City Campus South, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston ...

AIM To describe the prevalence of anophthalmia/microphthalmia in babies born in England 1988–94, as well as their overall survival, and the incidence of associated ...

Correspondence to Dr Nishad Plakkal, Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry-605006, India; plakkal{at}gmail.com ...

OBJECTIVES To document the incidence, timing, degree, and associations of systemic hypoperfusion in the preterm infant and to explore the temporal relation between low systemic blood flow and the ...

Department of Paediatrics, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Dr S Hosono, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi Itabashi, Tokyo ...