A prominent health care organization warned U.S. hospitals Wednesday to watch out for the return of a rare but preventable type of brain damage in newborns that has been on the rise with shorter ...

Jaundice is relatively mild and doesn't physically hurt your baby, but severe cases of jaundice can lead to brain damage. How parents can treat eczema and jaundice.

One in eight newborn babies has a gene variant that almost completely protects against jaundice. The research provides the opportunity to develop a treatment that can prevent severe cases of jaundice.

Many healthy newborns develop mild jaundice. But in HDFN, many red blood cells are bursting and rapidly releasing their bilirubin, so jaundice can quickly become severe.

This data may also open up better treatment options for severe cases of jaundice in infants. The findings have been reported in Nature Communications . Jaundice , or a yellowish skin and eye ...

This can cause a rare disease called haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN), which can lead to severe anaemia, severe jaundice in the newborn and, at worst, brain damage or death.

Infant jaundice or neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common condition, particularly in babies born before 38 weeks gestation (preterm babies) and some breastfed babies.

One in eight newborn babies has a gene variant that almost completely protects against jaundice. The research, conducted at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, provides the opportunity to ...

Severe jaundice can cause brain damage if left untreated. ... But many newborns have some type of jaundice and bilirubin levels that rise above 5 mg/dL in the first few days after birth.

A DeSoto, Texas family has been reunited with its newborn after CPS removed the child over concerns about her “severe” jaundice. Temecia and Rodney Jackson’s precious newborn, baby girl Mila ...