This week’s In the News highlights PolicyLab’s second annual Impact Report, an FDA approval based on CHOP research, and a link between daycare and chronic lung disease effects in premature infants.
Meet Clay Maresca: The happy, healthy 2 ½-year-old loves to wear hats (which mom, Amy, loves to buy for him), play with balls, and has a throwing arm so strong it surprises everyone he meets.
Caffeine therapy can help premature babies breathe stronger and sooner on their own. When a group of caffeine-treated premature babies reached middle school, the therapy appeared to reduce their risk of motor impairment – building on earlier follow-ups that show the treatment's safety, efficacy, and developmental benefits for the babies at one-and-a-half years old.
A march, a medal, and a media blitz: In this week's research news, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia investigators made their mark in the history of progressive science in big, bold ways.
Every child begins life in a paradise built of biological wonders. The umbilical cord tethering the fetus to her mother’s placenta not only enables the exchange of blood gases in place of breathing air, but it also permits her to float and rotate within the warm incubating amniotic fluid while it delivers her every nutritional need as she grows ready for independent life.
Clinicians in neonatal intensive care units across the country are uncertain about when to administer rotavirus vaccination to infants whose medical conditions require prolonged hospital stays.
