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AI may help spot newborns at risk for most severe form of blinding disease

March 4, 2020 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Newborn, Prematurity, Vision

An artificial intelligence (AI) device that has been fast-tracked for approval by the Food and Drug Administration may help identify newborns at risk for aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (AP-ROP). AP-ROP is the most severe form of ROP and can be difficult to diagnose in time to save vision.

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A MOTHER’S BUGS

January 8, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments E. Coli, gut microbes, gut microbiota, Immunity, Microbiome, Newborn

-Newborn mice derive protective antibodies from their mothers’ microbiota
-Antibodies derived from mothers’ microbiota ward off both localized and widespread systemic infections by the bacterium E. coli
-Study points to the role of maternal microbes in offspring protection and neonatal immunity
-Findings can inform development of microbe-based therapies against infectious diarrhea in infants

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What Breastfeeding Parents Need to Know

August 5, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Newborn

New and expectant parents have so many questions. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing experts discussed how to become a lactation consultant and a host of tips for expectant parents-to-be.