New, updated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit will open this summer

Singing or playing womb-like sounds in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may help slow the heart rate and improve sleep and eating patterns of premature babies, a new study suggests. Researchers found infants who had respiratory distress or ...

A special room in Nepean Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is set to put a smile on the faces of local families going through difficult times. The new Ronald McDonald Family Room, which has been in the works for years, was officially ...

Tiny Lives, the charitable fund that supports the neonatal service at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle, has been given a major cash boost from a Prudhoe company. Prudhoe-based unlicensed medicines manufacturer The Specials Laboratory ...

Understaffed neonatal intensive care units (NICU) increase infection rates in sick babies, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Nurse staffing in NICUs is far below national guidelines, and the study authors aimed to compare ...

Little Carter Silveira was sound asleep in the Sutter Memorial Hospital neonatal intensive care unit. A ventilator helped him breathe. Sensors on his chest monitored his temperature, and fine tubes snaked into a foot and his left arm and hand. Most ...

On Mother's Day, I think of the moms of the sick and premature babies I cared for in the neonatal ICU for more than 30 years. They all shared these characteristics: • They and their spouses/partners were sleep-deprived — dead-dog exhausted. • ...

A doctor whose neonatal care initiative in Bengal gave the rest of the country a model to follow has been denied permission by the Mamata Banerjee government to be a team leader in a nationwide child health programme. The state health department has ...

Health Minister V S Sivakumar has said that neonatal treatment centres will be launched in 59 government hospitals in the State. He said that special newborn stabilisation units will be launched in 47 taluk hospitals, and special newborn care units ...

Security has been bolstered at Starship Hospital's neonatal unit this morning after a sick 11-day-old baby has been found. He was taken from Auckland Hospital by his mother last night. Baby Jacob was taken from the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at the ...