Latest Neonatal nursing Stories
TELFORD, Pa., Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BabyFirst (http://www.babyfirst.com), providing information for healthcare professionals and support for parents of premature babies, today announced the details for its highly-anticipated "Hot Topic" webinars for neonatal clinicians to gather insights to current best practices from around the world. The webinars will provide labor and delivery and NICU practitioners with a rare opportunity to watch and interact with key opinion leaders...
Arlington-Based Hospital Works to Enhance Neonatal Care in Northern Virginia ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Virginia Hospital Center and Children's National Medical Center have entered into a three-year agreement that will enhance specialty neonatology care in Northern Virginia. The collaboration will result in Children's managing Virginia Hospital Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), effective August 15, 2012. "We are thrilled to be joining...
BOZEN, SUD-TIROL, Italy, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that i.v.STATION and Mangiagalli's Clinic won a national grant from the Vodafone Foundation, as selected by Vodafone customers' votes from a group of potential projects, all of which were focused on children's welfare. This grant provided funding for the i.v.STATION Robot at Mangiagalli, where 6,500 children are born every year, many of them requiring intensive care and complex medication...
Texas Children's Newborn Center features nation's largest Level-3 NICU HOUSTON, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital has been recognized as a national leader in neonatology among pediatric hospitals in U.S.News & World Report's 2012-13 edition of Best Children's Hospitals. By continuing to improve outcomes, substantially improving survival rates and keeping a strong focus on research and preventing complications associated with prematurity, Texas...
Half of all premature babies now born in specialized center Neonatal services in England have seen a considerable improvement since the introduction of new guidelines in 2003, a study published on bmj.com claims. The new guidelines were set out to help increase the proportion of premature babies born in a specialist care unit and reduce the amount of acute (within 24 hours of birth) postnatal transfers from one hospital to another. The specialized delivery and management of premature...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- In 1989, Madeline Mann became the world's smallest surviving baby after she was born at Loyola University Medical Center. She weighed 280 g. (9.9 oz.) -- about the size of an iPhone. In 2004. Rumaisa Rahmam set a Guinness World Record after she was born at Loyola, weighing 260 g. (9.2 oz.). Remarkably, Madeline and Rumaisa both have normal motor and language development. Rumaisa remains the world's smallest surviving baby, and Madeline now is the world's fourth...
TELFORD, Pa., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BabyFirst.com, an online-resource focused exclusively on neonatal care, announces the availability of its Baby Hero song on iTunes, beginning today. The release coincides with the annual celebration of World Prematurity Day when organizations worldwide join together to bring attention to premature birth, highlight educational resources and discuss lifesaving medical advances. The Baby Hero song will cost $0.99. Any profit made by the sales of the...
TELFORD, Pa., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BabyFirst.com, an online-resource focused exclusively on neonatal care, announces the upcoming availability of its new documentary, 50 Years of Neonatal Care: The Passion that Drives us Forward. The launch will coincide with World Prematurity Day, the international day of recognition for babies born prematurely. The trailer for the documentary along with several new video lectures on hot topics in neonatal care are available on BabyFirst.com and...
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, critically ill babies born at Abbott Northwestern Hospital have been whisked through an underground tunnel for emergency care at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. It is stressful to separate moms from their babies immediately after birth, but it was necessary to provide the best care possible for both. Soon, this kind of separation will no longer be necessary. Recognizing the need for a central place where mothers and...
DALLAS, September 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Fetal (Labor & Delivery) and Neonatal Care Equipment Market (2011-2016) [http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/fetal-neonatal-care-equipment-market-412.html ] " analyzes the global fetal and neonatal care equipment market by types and studies the major market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and market trends for the fetal and neonatal care market across 18 countries in North America, Europe,...
