A healthcare worker collects a few drops of blood from a pinprick to a newborn’s heel for use in a test to screen the baby for an inherited disorder. The newborn screening test for severe combined ...

New recommendations on emergency neonatal blood transfusions have been issued by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) following a number of serious adverse outcomes including brain injury ...

When a newborn requires surgery, the question of how to manage bleeding becomes more complicated than it is for adults or older children. Infant blood clots differently. The fibrin network that forms ...

Race: East Asian, Arabic, Chinese, Mediterranean (parental risk for G6PD deficiency and other inheritable disorders) Family history of elevated unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia (e.g., Gilbert's disease ...

Pregnant women have been discovered to be especially vulnerable to respiratory pathogens, and they are more likely to require critical care and die from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...