NEW-born babies are being put at risk because they are being treated with untested drugs, a leading paediatrician warned after a study of 70 babies found that 65 per cent of drug treatments given at a hospital had not been properly tested.Birmingham Evening Mail (England)...
Giving pregnant women a cocktail of anti-HIV drugs can prevent them from spreading the virus to their unborn children, a step that has dramatically reduced the number of babies born with the virus worldwide. Still, some 300 to 500 infants are estimated to be infected every day in sub-Sahara...
Morebabies of mothers addicted to opioidsare being born dependent on the drugs themselves, driven by a sharp surge in rural areas of the country. The newborns come into the world suffering from what medical experts call neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a term for the constellation of health ...
The newborns include babies like Savannah, whose mother stopped abusing painkillers and switched to prescription methadone early in pregnancy, and those whose mothers are still abusing legal or illegal drugs. Weaning infants from these drugs can take weeks or months and often requires a lengthy stay ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia, which has the nation’s highest rate of babies born dependent on drugs, will now offer Medicaid coverage to treat those babies.
"This observation is consistent with the trend of increasing opiate use across the U.S., which is not limited to illicit drugs," Patrick and colleagues wrote, citing CDC data showing a quadrupling of sales and deaths related to opiate painkillers between 1999 and 2008. ...
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The researchers also found that babies with congenital syphilis were more likely to have mothers who used illegal drugs. They were also more apt to be born prematurely and have low birth weight. Infants with congenital syphilis also had longer hospital stays than infants without the disease (15 ...
Newborn Patients of Mothers with Substance Abuse: Providing proper health care for mothers and their babies 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 40 作者: SG Albersheim 摘要: It is important to identify high-risk women abusing drugs in order to provide good care for them and their babies. ...
The sides have been negotiating regularly behind closed doors. The drug industry argues that it should not be held liable because its products are approved by the federal government and prescribed by doctors and because people who overdose often do so on illicit drugs. ...