Background: Incubators are largely used to preserve preterm and sick babies from postnatal stressors, but their motors produce high electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Newborns are chronically exposed to ...

a Peter Congden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, D Floor Clarendon Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, LS2 9NS, b Killingbeck Hospital Leeds Dr R Skelton Hull Maternity Hospital, Hedon Road, Hull HU9 ...

Background: Previous data from this unit suggest that postnatal growth retardation (PGR) is inevitable in preterm infants. However, the study was performed in a single level III neonatal intensive ...

Intraventricular haemorrhage and posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation remain an important challenge in the management of prematurity and are associated with significant permanent morbidity.

Correspondence to Dr Camilla Gizzi, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric and Neonatal Department, “S.Giovanni Calibita” Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Piazza Confienza, 3 Rome 00185, Italy; ...

Postnatal dexamethasone treatment for preterm infants at high risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia is associated with improved regional brain volumes: a prospective cohort study (13 May, 2025) ...

Background Outcomes of prenatal covariate-adjusted outborn very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWIs) (≤1500 g) remain uncertain. Objective To compare morbidity and mortality between outborn and inborn ...

Background In neonatal trials, verbal opt-out consent has been used to reduce burden on families and make recruitment more efficient and representative. It involves information provision through ...

Correspondence to Professor Robert Mark Beattie, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Southampton Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Southampton, Tremona road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Catherine M Harrison, Neonatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK; catherine.harrison10{at}nhs.net If you wish to reuse ...

3 Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 4 Centre For Paediatrics, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary ...

Background Targeted testing for cytomegalovirus (CMV) in preterm infants <21 days has two benefits: timely congenital CMV (cCMV) diagnosis, and differentiation between cCMV and postnatal CMV (pCMV).