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MCHENRY, Ill., Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Medela will host its second annual Human Milk (breast milk) Collection Campaign in honor of the March of Dimes' National Prematurity Awareness Month. As part of the campaign, Medela will donate a total of $30,000 in breastfeeding support products to neonatal intensive care units across the country. "Our goal is to continue to help raise awareness of the importance of human milk feeding -- which works like a medicine to help protect premature...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than half a million babies are born too soon each year and thousands don't live to celebrate their first birthday as a result. November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and people can learn more about the seriousness of premature birth, donate, or create a virtual band to celebrate, honor or remember a baby in their life at the March of Dimes web site - marchofdimes.com/fight. On November 17, the March of Dimes will mark the...
Nurses lead patient education program for mothers of newbornsPediatric researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describe a successful program in which nurses helped mothers attain high rates of breast-feeding in very sick babies--newborns with complex birth defects requiring surgery and intensive care.Many of these highly vulnerable newborns immediately experience a paradoxical situation. Their mother's milk helps to fend off infection and provides easily digestible, nutritious...
DURBAN, South Africa, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two nurses will be honored today with the first International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award. This award recognizes the commitment of nurses working on the frontlines of newborn care in resource-challenged countries, where the majority of newborn deaths occur. Regina Obeng from Kumasi in Ghana and Rekha Kashinath Samant from Mumbai, India, were selected from nominations sent from all over the world. They will receive their awards...
Newly trained professionals in those jobs will likely decrease going forward as more health care systems are designed to take care of the elderly population Pediatric health care work force planning efforts are increasingly incorporating the roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, especially in plansto alleviate the perceived shortage of pediatric subspecialists.However, results from four new studies of pediatric nurse practitioners, family nurse practitioners, neonatal...
New mothers who smoke are less likely to breastfeed. But those who quit smoking during or just prior to becoming pregnant were significantly more likely to remain smoke free and continue breastfeeding if they received support and encouragement during the first eight weeks following child birth, according to a study presented Monday, Oct. 4, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco.Mothers who smoke are more than twice as likely to quit...
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) announced today that a new multi-center study published in the International Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal, Acta Paediatrica, shows that a change in clinical practice with the use of Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology led to a significant reduction of severe Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)--a devastating eye disease resulting in partial or complete blindness--in premature newborns. The study also confirmed that...
Nonprofit Has a Long History of Raising Standards for Working Parents WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although it's only been on Working Mother Media's 100 Best Companies for two years, the March of Dimes has a long history of influencing women's ability to balance work and life. "The March of Dimes is honored to be part of this 25th Anniversary and the fact that a nonprofit with limited resources can make this prestigious list two years in a row shows that any...
Stanford University researchers have developed a revolutionary, non-invasive way of quickly predicting the future health of premature infants, an innovation that could better target specialized medical intervention and reduce health-care costs."What the PhysiScore does is open a new frontier," said Anna Penn, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and a neonatologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. "The national push toward electronic...
March of Dimes supports congressional briefing on infant mortalityVery low birthweight and very preterm infants are more likely to die if they are not born at hospitals with neonatal intensive care units specially equipped to care for seriously ill newborns, in contrast to similar babies born at those specialized facilities."We encourage women who have high risk pregnancies to talk with their health care provider about the care their baby may need after birth and about the appropriate...
