A prominent health care organization warned U.S. hospitals Wednesday to watch out for the return of a rare but preventable type of brain damage in newborns that has been on the rise with shorter ...

Dear Doctors: When my nephew was born last year, he had something the doctors called neonatal jaundice. It went away after a few weeks, and he seemed fine. Then the same thing happened when I had my ...

Newborn jaundice, common in newborns, can become severe, especially in certain regions, leading to deaths and disabilities. While phototherapy is the proven treatment, direct sunlight is risky due to ...

The possibility of “Acetaminophen instability” got all lots of KinderMed Infants’ Pain & Fever and KinderMed Kids’ Pain & Fever medicine recalled by distributor KinderFarms. “The two products were ...

According to Dr Adnaan Mustafa, Consultant Pediatrician at The Nairobi West Hospital, infant jaundice or neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common condition, particularly in babies born before 38 weeks ...

Infant jaundice is a condition where a baby’s skin, and the white part of their eye, appear yellow. Jaundice is a common condition in infants, affecting over 50 percent of all newborns. Jaundice is ...

Dear Doctors: When my nephew was born last year, he had something the doctors called neonatal jaundice. It went away after a few weeks, and he seemed fine. Then the same thing happened when I had my ...

Jaundice in the newborn baby is caused by an excess of bilirubin. Bilirubin in the blood is usually present in very small amounts. It contains the breakdown components of red blood cells. Normally the ...

Hepatitis A is a severe liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus, (HAV), a highly contagious virus that can range in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks, to a severe illness ...

From 2000 to 2007, 27,693 neonates with newly diagnosed neonatal jaundice and 55,367 matched nonneonatal jaundice cohorts were identified. The incidences and hazard ratios (HRs) of five allergic ...