Articles Tagged With: babies
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First Baby with Zika Born in the United States
A woman with the Zika virus has given birth in New Jersey to a baby who is reported to have microcephaly.
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Patients alarmed after newborns exposed to TB
A California hospital continues a high-stakes tuberculosis follow-up of more than 350 newborns exposed to an infected healthcare worker. With testing reliability questionable in such infants, the babies are essentially being treated empirically with isoniazid for a TB strain that is susceptible to the first line drug.
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Remind all women about importance of folic acid
While fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs), women of reproductive age still should be counseled to take a multivitamin with folic acid every day.