Unveiling the nexus between minimum dietary diversity and anemia among children aged 6–23 months in India: evidence from NFHS-5 (2019–2021) by Koyel Majumder, Mithun Sarkar, Rahul Mallick, Bikash Barman, Pradip Chouhan

“…The target 3.2 of Sustainable Development Goals is to put an end to all preventable newborn and child deaths under the age of 5 by 2030, and the prevalence of anemia (hemoglobin level in blood <11 g/dL) among children is a serious health concern in developing nations, such as India. …”
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Two Synchronous Neonatal Tumors: An Extremely Rare Case by M. Rodríguez-Zubieta, K. Albarenque, C. Lagues, A. San Roman, M. Varela, D. Russo, G. Podesta, D. Steinberg, C. Schauvinhold, A. Etchegaray, M. T. G. de Dávila

“…We report a case of a newborn with two synchronous tumors—sialoblastoma and hepatoblastoma—diagnosed at 20 weeks of gestation by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography (US). …”
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Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Service Utilization among Pregnant Women in Northeast Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gorems Lemma, Abebe Balcha, Mitku Mammo Taderegew

“…Targeting pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics provides a unique opportunity for implementing the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection of newborn babies. The objective of this study was to assess the PMTCT service utilization rate and to characterize its reasons among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics at selected public health facilities in Debre Berhan Town, Northern Ethiopia. …”
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A case report of an early neonatal death accompanied by disseminated intravascular coagulation caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection by Mitić Gorana P., Spasić Igor G., Panjković Milana D., Vučković Biljana A.

“…Despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the newborn passed away three hours after birth. The mother recovered in several days, she was discharged in good clinical condition. …”
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Effect of the application of humanized nursing care on the clinical outcomes of neonates with hyperbilirubinemia by Sahar Mahmoud Elkhedr Abdelgawad, Eman Salah Elmetwaly Abdelrahman Galalah, Heba Saied El-mahdy, Nagafa Hafez Farag Elmahdy

“…Conclusion Applying humanized care improved neonatal clinical outcomes, including O2 saturation, jaundice regression, enhanced newborn feeding and decreased duration of phototherapy.…”
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Plasma and Aorta Biochemistry and MMPs Activities in Female Rabbit Fed Methionine Enriched Diet and Their Offspring by Khira Othmani Mecif, Souhila Aouichat Bouguerra, Yasmina Benazzoug

“…Met excess enhanced proMMP-9 activities in NPMet while it decreased them in PMet. PMet newborn presented increase in uremia and CRP and significant rise of active MMP-2 and MMP-9 forms. …”
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Harlequin Ichthyosis: Case Series by Huriye Ezveci, Sukran Dogru, Fatih Akkus, Kazim Gezginc

“…It is fatal for the affected newborn after the first few days after birth, but few long-term survivals have been recorded. …”
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Incontinentia Pigmenti Misdiagnosed as Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection by Fahimeh Abdollahimajd, Minoo Fallahi, Mohammad Kazemian, Yalda Nilipour, Mitra Radfar, Sedigheh Tahereh Tehranchi

“…In this case report, we present a 12-day female newborn with a history of maternal genital HSV in second trimester and vesicular lesions on the upper and lower limbs that was appeared at first hours of life. …”
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Case report: Dandy-Walker malformation with occipital encephalocele and superadded meningitis by Saher Bano, Muhammad Aqib Faizan, Tooba Rehman, Jasleen Kaur, Jeevanjyot Singh

“…While there was no bruit in the transillumination of the cyst, there was a bruit in the transillumination of the skull.Due to his grunting respiratory rate of 44 breaths per minute and heart rate of 140 breaths per minute at presentation, he was admitted to the newborn critical care unit. The occipital cyst was excised following neurosurgery on board after getting a CT scan brain done which showed dilated ventricles with normal pressure hydrocephalus, cystic cerebellar changes, communicating with 4th ventricle and occipital encephalocele. …”
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Examining the Impact of Health Belief Model-Based Education on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Attitudes Among Married Women by Tülay Ortabağ, Neşe Ataman Bor

“…Introduction: Reproductive health services include maternal, child, and newborn health, family planning, fertility issues, and reproductive education, primarily benefiting women.Aim: It was aimed to examine the effects of Health Belief Model based instruction on married women protective attitudes toward reproductive health.Method: The study was designed as a quasi-experimental method with unequal groups for pre-test and posttest comparison. …”
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Neonatal Outcomes of Late-Preterm Birth Associated or Not with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Cristiane Ortigosa Rocha, Roberto Eduardo Bittar, Marcelo Zugaib

“…Transient tachypnea of the newborn or apnea rates did not differ significantly between the IUGR and AGA groups. …”
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A Case of Pregnancy Complicated with ATIII Deficiency in a Patient Who Developed Severe Venous Thromboembolism in Her Fourth Pregnancy and Had a Favourable Outcome in Her Subsequen... by Mie Sakai, Jumpei Ogura, Koji Yamanoi, Takahiro Hirayama, Tsutomu Ohara, Haruka Suzuki, Yoshihide Inayama, Koji Yasumoto, Koh Suginami

“…The course of pregnancy was good, and a healthy female newborn of 2310 g was delivered vaginally at 37 weeks 6 days of gestation. …”
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Improving neonatal outcome by studying the incidence of maternal group B streptococcus colonization among pregnant women: A prospective observational study by Priyank Rajan, Mukesh Sanklecha, Saloni Gandhi, Kaushal Soni, Mayur Wanjari, Gaurav Mittal

“…Neither the pregnant woman nor the newborn showed any symptoms or signs due to GBS. GBS grown in vaginal culture was highly sensitive to benzyl penicillin and other penicillins, cephalosporins, clindamycin, daptomycin, vancomycin, meropenem, and linezolid. …”
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Cardiac cycle: an observational/interventional study protocol to characterise cardiopulmonary function and evaluate a home-based cycling program in children and adolescents born ex... by Jeanie L Y Cheong, Michael M H Cheung, Melanie M Clarke, Jonathan P Mynard, Claire E Willis

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Postnatal Hematopoiesis and Gut Microbiota in NOD Mice Deviate from C57BL/6 Mice by Dina Silke Malling Damlund, Stine Broeng Metzdorff, Jane Preuss Hasselby, Maria Wiese, Mia Lundsager, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Karsten Stig Buschard, Axel Kornerup Hansen, Hanne Frøkiær

“…We hypothesized that NOD mice deviate from another much used mouse strain, C57BL/6, with respect to postnatal microbiota and/or hematopoiesis and compared this in newborn mice of dams housed under the same conditions. …”
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Associated Credit Risk Contagion with Incubatory Period: A Network-Based Perspective by Kai Xu, Jianming Mo, Qian Qian, Fengying Zhang, Xiaofeng Xie, Zongfang Zhou

“…The results show the following: (i) the contagion threshold of associated credit risk is related to the incubatory period of latent entities, the recovery rate and infectivity of infected entities, and the newborn rate of credit entities; (ii) the infectious rate of infected entities, the mortality rate of credit entities, and the important factors stated in (i) are all significantly correlated with the density of infected entities.…”
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Bacteriology and pathological anatomy of pneumonias in monkeys by V. A. Kalashnikova, N. S. Rudenko

“…The highest pneumonia-associated mortality was observed in newborn (0–8-day-old) and baby monkeys under the age of 1 month (161 animals). …”
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Innate Immune Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Necrotizing Enterocolitis by David J. Hackam, Amin Afrazi, Misty Good, Chhinder P. Sodhi

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Relationship of Maternal Hemoglobin and the Intergenic Period with Birth Weight by Carlos Alberto Llerena Gómez, Evelyn Carolina Betancourt Rubio, Karen Aracelly Tobar Almendariz

“…A statistically significant positive correlation (r = 0.665; p &lt; 0.001) was identified between maternal hemoglobin, interpregnancy interval (r = 0.527; p &lt; 0.05) and newborn weight.<br /> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> factors such as maternal hemoglobin during pregnancy and the duration of the intergenic period influence birth weight. …”
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Perceptions and expectations of parents regarding their position in a French NICU: quantitative and qualitative approaches by Véronique Thébaud, Jacques Sizun, Magdalini Dargentas

“…Study I surveyed parents via a questionnaire, and study II was a reanalysis of interviews with fathers, collected in a previous study.Setting Neonatology department in a French tertiary care university hospital that promotes the Newborn Individualised Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP).Participants In both studies, participants had a premature child admitted for any level of care in the neonatal intensive care unit.Results For study I, about half (33) of eligible families participated in the questionnaire survey, and for study II, we reanalysed interviews with 20 fathers. …”
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