How Late Can You Give Routine Newborn Care?
Discussion
Routine newborn screening and treatment is focused on assisting the infant’s transition to extrauterine life, screening for health problems that may or may not be easily identifiable, and preventing acute or chronic health problems. Healthy infants begin with healthy pregnancies including risk factor assessment and screening of mothers. Such routine maternal screening and treatment does or may include glucose tolerance tests, ultrasound examinations, screenings for maternal blood type (with appropriate administration of Rho(D) immunoglobulin if appropriate), Hepatitis B, Neisseria gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Cyt...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 20, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Terrified parents fear their toddlers will never get 'miracle' cystic fibrosis drug, with NHS watchdogs poised to cut-off supply due to its £200,000 price-tag
EXCLUSIVE: Parents are scared their toddlers will never get 'miracle' cystic fibrosis drug Kaftrio, which is approved for over two's. Florence, 19 months, and Skye, 21 months, (pictured) are yet to get it. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Miracle' cystic fibrosis medicine gets approved for toddlers, sparking hope for hundreds of 'terrified' parents who feared their kids would never get £200k drug shown to extend life by up to 30 years
Until now, health chiefs had only approved Kaftrio for children over six. The MHRA today gave it the green light for youngsters two and above. Pictured, Nikki Thorbinson and five-year-old Henry (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cystic fibrosis drug which could save lives of thousands of children 'too expensive'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is not backing life-changing drugs for sufferers of cystic fibrosis. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Heartbroken and devastated’ - 2,000 toddlers in limbo amid fears of U-turn on wonder drug
Desperate families are pleading for continuing access to cystic fibrosis wonder drugs that health chiefs now say are too expensive. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cystic fibrosis: Mum fears her baby will die after drugs are axed
The mum of a baby with cystic fibrosis says it is "unthinkable" she may not get the drugs she needs. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Weaker Demand for Older CF Treatments Weaker Demand for Older CF Treatments
Vertex Pharmaceuticals missed Wall Street estimates for third-quarter sales on Monday, hurt by weaker-than-expected demand for its older cystic fibrosis treatments.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news
Great news as cystic fibrosis sufferer finally gets a liver after 26-month wait
Cystic fibrosis sufferer Sarah Meredith is the healthiest she's been for years following a long-awaited liver transplant - after the Daily Express highlighted her plight. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Immunity-enhancing cocktail protects mice against multiple hospital germs
Some people in hospital die not from the illness or accident that got them admitted but from germs they catch once there. In the United States alone, there are hundreds of thousands of hospital-acquired infections each year, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. Seeking to lower this toll, researchers have now come up with an
immune-boosting cocktail that increases the survival
of mice exposed to the microbes responsible.
The three-compound formulation, which the researchers unusually refer to as a vaccine, provided up to 28 days of protection from the notorious hospital bacterium
Pseudomonas aerugin...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
1999 to 2020 Saw Decrease in Cystic Fibrosis-Related Mortality
TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 -- Cystic fibrosis (CF)-related mortality rates declined and the median age of death among CF decedents increased in the United States from 1999 to 2020, according to a study published online Sept. 12 in Scientific... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 3, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential
AlphaMissense ’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disordersScientists at Google DeepMind have built an artificial intelligence program that can predict whether millions of genetic mutations are either harmless or likely to cause disease, in an effort to speed up research and the diagnosis of rare disorders.The program makes predictions about so-called missense mutations, where a single letter is misspelt in the DNA code. Such mutations are often harmless but they can disrupt how proteins work and cause diseases from cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anaemia to cancer and problems with brain de...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Genetics Medical research Artificial intelligence (AI) Google Science Technology Computing Biology Source Type: news
AI Is Scouring Our Genetic Code to Guess Who Might Get Sick
Mutations in the HBB gene, left, a beta-globin protein that is one of the subunits of hemoglobin, can cause sickle cell. Mutations in CFTR, a particular type of protein called an ion channel, can cause cystic fibrosis. One of the greatest challenges biologists face is figuring out which of the…#hbb #cftr (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Beyond CF: Genetics of PF and Other Lung Diseases Beyond CF: Genetics of PF and Other Lung Diseases
' Cystic fibrosis has provided a framework for approaching the genetics of lung fibrosis. 'MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news
2024 Breakthrough Prizes Announced: Cystic Fibrosis Pioneers Awarded $3 Million
Researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals were honored for their revolutionary work in the treatment of genetic disorder, along with other scientists in biology, physics and mathematics. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff Tags: Science /science Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Billionaires /worlds-billionaires Editors' Pick editors-pick technology alexknappblog premium Source Type: news
2024 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences
This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - September 14, 2023 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
