"As cuts sweep across federal health agencies, the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) has been terminated.

Notably, the ACHDNC...is responsible for the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP), a standardized list of dozens of conditionsopens in a new tab or window the HHS secretary recommends states screen for as part of their universal newborn screening programs."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115070

Infants have impressive #auditory learning capabilities, even at day 1. Study shows that #newborns & 6–mo-olds already learn & detect #grammar-like rules; the underlying #BrainNetworks reorganize to be more adult-like after the first half-year #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3UiaGMg

Me as a newborn. #Baby #newborns #throwback

New Yorker: A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-novel-that-captures-the-mind-bending-early-weeks-of-parenthood #NewYorker #Books/Page-Turner #ChildRearing #Motherhood #Newborns #Novels #Books

#Pun #Puns #Parent #Parents #Parenting #Children #Baby #Babies #Newborn #Newborns.

Researchers have found the “Eat, Sleep, Console” (#ESC) care approach to be more effective than using the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool (#FNAST) to assess and manage #opioid-exposed #newborns
#Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/05/med05012301.html

By sifting through #electronic #health records of moms and babies using a machine-learning #algorithm, #scientists can predict how at-risk #newborns will fare in their first two months of life. The new method allows #physicians to classify, at or before #birth, which #infants are likely to develop complications of #prematurity.
#Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/med02162301.html

#Mississippi hit by 900% increase in #newborns treated for #syphilis
"This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year," the state's former health officer said.

The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that's already home to the nation's worst infant mortality rate.

#Pregnancy #Healthcare #STDs
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congenital-syphilis-treatment-mississippi-increase-rcna69381