An app called BiliCam uses a smartphone's camera and flash in conjunction with a color calibration card to diagnose jaundice in infants. A common condition in infants--especially those born ...
Reliance on the visual signs of jaundice could put newborn babies, particularly those born prematurely and those with black and brown skin, at risk of serious harm, the healthcare safety watchdog has ...
One in eight newborn babies has a gene variant that almost completely protects against jaundice. The research provides the opportunity to develop a treatment that can prevent severe cases of jaundice.
Parents of newborns have enough to worry about, and they can most likely add newborn skin ailments to that list. Nearly 20 percent of newborns contract eczema, and roughly 60 percent of newborns — ...
Yellowish skin in newborns can be a sign that your little one has neonatal jaundice. It doesn’t look pretty, but jaundice in newborns is really common and rarely needs medical assistance to heal ...
One in eight newborn babies has a gene variant that almost completely protects against jaundice. The research, conducted at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, provides the opportunity to develop ...
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 ...
Jaundice is one of the most common medical issues in newborns, affecting nearly 80 percent of full-term infants in their first days of life. The condition occurs when excess bilirubin, a yellow ...
NAINR. 2004;4(4):201-210. The presenting signs of ABE are subtle and nonspecific. They need to be elicited by direct questioning of parents and close clinical observation of the hyperbilirubinemic ...
When cancer subtypes were examined, the analysis revealed that phototherapy was linked to a 40% increased odds of blood cancers. More modest associations were observed for solid organ cancers and ...