Newborn Jaundice Links

Early delivery may not be best for baby (Detroit News)

Conventional wisdom has long held that inducing labor or having a Caesarean section a bit early posed little risk, since after 34 weeks gestation, all the baby has to do is grow.

Caitlynn gives family a new reason to celebrate (Brainerd Dispatch)

[Just forty-one minutes into the new year, Caitlynn Renee Ann Vice of Baxter made her debut, becoming the first baby born in Crow Wing County in 2009.

Vineyard Doctor Helps Zambian Mothers (Vineyard Gazette)

Some physicians, at a mid-point in their lives, might find an altruistic impulse, or if they’ve had the impulse all along, the need to express it more fully. So it is with Oak Bluffs obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Jason Lew, with his wife, Injy, and their three daughters, Olivia, 23, a Middlebury College graduate (who just completed Michigan field work in the Obama campaign), Isabelle, 21, a ...

Lack of funding, expertise slows prenatal, newborn health project (Vietnam Net)

VietNamNet Bridge – Lack of expertise and funding has hindered the expansion of a prenatal and newborn screening project in all cities and provinces, according to Deputy Director of the National Obstetrics Hospital Le Anh Tuan.

Ohio receives 'D' rating on premature births (Port Clinton News Herald)

The United States is failing hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born, according to the March of Dimes.