Impact of exposure to cooking fuels on stillbirths, perinatal, very early and late neonatal mortality - a multicenter prospective cohort study in rural communities in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Guatemala [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Consequences of exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from biomass fuels used for cooking on neonatal deaths and stillbirths is poorly understood.
Carlo, Waldemar A.+17 more
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ABSTRACT At different stages of life, from embryonic to postnatal, varying oxygen concentrations modulate cellular gene expression by enhancing or repressing hypoxia‐inducible transcription factors. During embryonic/fetal life, these genes encode proteins involved in adapting to a low‐oxygen environment, including the induction of specific enzymes ...
Luca Filippi+9 more
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The cause-specific morbidity and mortality, and referral patterns of all neonates admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in the northern provinces of Vietnam over a one year period. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To describe the cause-specific morbidity and mortality, and referral patterns of all neonates admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in the northern provinces of Vietnam. DESIGN: A prospective hospital based observational study. SETTING: The
Dung, Khu Thi Khanh+8 more
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Enhancing the utility of placental pathology reports for clinical use
Abstract Obstetric training programs typically offer limited formal education on placental pathology; yet, in practice, obstetric providers are expected to incorporate placental pathology findings into the overall evaluation of obstetric complications.
Janelle Santos+9 more
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Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]
The current literature suggests that perinatal palliative care (PPC) programs should be comprehensive, initiated early, and integrative. So far there have been very few publications on the subject of home-based PC of newborns and neonates.
Korzeniewska-Eksterowicz, Aleksandra+4 more
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Zero-Shot Pediatric Tuberculosis Detection in Chest X-Rays using Self-Supervised Learning [PDF]
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health challenge, with pediatric cases posing a major concern. The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for chest X-rays (CXRs) for TB screening. However, visual interpretation by radiologists can be subjective, time-consuming and prone to error, especially in pediatric TB. Artificial intelligence (AI)
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the additional contribution of karyotyping compared with genome‐wide non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for pregnancies at intermediate risk for trisomy 21 (T21), calculated using the maternal serum screening without major structural anomalies detected through sonography.
Gul Alkan Bulbul+6 more
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Validity of neonatal jaundice evaluation by primary health-care workers and physicians in Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]
Objective: The Purpose of this study was to validate primary health-care workers\u27 and physicians\u27 visual assessment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in Karachi, Pakistan.
Abbasi, F.+6 more
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Background: Global assessment of antimicrobial agents prescribed to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may inform antimicrobial stewardship efforts.
Pavel Prusakov, PharmD+76 more
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Emotional Distraction for Children Anxiety Reduction During Vaccination [PDF]
Social assistive robots are starting to be widely used in pediatric health-care environments with the aim of distracting and entertaining children, and so of reducing a possible state of anxiety. In this paper, we present some initial results of a study (N=69) conducted in a Health-Vaccines Center, where the distraction role of a social robot, which ...
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