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Preterm infants: immunity and immunisation

Preterm birth affects around 7–8% of pregnancies in the UK. There are immunological consequences of preterm birth, epidemiological differences in infectious diseases in the preterm population and ...
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Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants: systematic review and meta-analysis

Correspondence to: Maria Quigley National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; maria.quigley{at}npeu.ox.ac.uk Objectives: To compare the ...
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Outbreaks of extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in neonatal intensive care units: a systematic review

Correspondence to Dr Patrick JM Stapleton, Department of Microbiology, Temple Street Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland; patstaps{at}gmail.com Objective To establish the ...
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The fetal and neonatal hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

Department of Paediatrics, Level 6, Clinical Science Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China ...
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Neonatal brain injuries in England: population-based incidence derived from routinely recorded clinical data held in the National Neonatal Research Database

Objective In 2015, the Department of Health in England announced an ambition to reduce ‘brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth’. We describe the development of a pragmatic case definition ...
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Current Issue

Letter: How deep is too deep and how long is too long? The effect of haemoglobin concentration on buffering capacity during desaturation in preterm infants (5 August, 2025) ...
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Perinatal management of extreme preterm birth before 27 weeks of gestation: a framework for practice

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Screening for early onset neonatal sepsis: NICE guidance-based practice versus projected application of the Kaiser Permanente sepsis risk calculator in the UK population

Objective To compare management recommendations of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines with the Kaiser Permanente sepsis risk calculator (SRC) for risk of early ...
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First-day weight loss predicts eventual weight nadir for breastfeeding newborns

3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Valerie Flaherman, Department of Pediatrics, ...
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Diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a 2023 update from the Canadian Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Collaborative

Objective The Canadian Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Collaborative sought to make its existing clinical practice guideline, published in 2018, into a ‘living document’. Design and main outcome ...
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Apoptosis in neural development and disease

Neonatal Neurosciences Unit, Division of Paediatrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London W12 ONN If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Trends in the incidence and management of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in the therapeutic hypothermia era: a national population study

Correspondence to Dr Don Sharkey, Academic Child Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; don.sharkey{at}nottingham.ac.uk Objective Hypoxic-ischaemic ...