Bringing the newborn home is such a special and emotional experience for parents, and yet with it come some unexpected challenges. One concern is Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome, wherein the ...

Newborn babies make a lot of interesting sounds between their tired cries, their hungry squeaks, and their first breathy giggles. But what does it mean when your baby is making grunting sounds? Noises ...

Doctors dismissed a newborn’s “grunting” as normal sounds — but six weeks later, the baby was intubated in the PICU, and is now awaiting a heart transplant. Stephanie Mulhall-Atkinson, 37, and Justin ...

The nSOFA score predicts prolonged mechanical ventilation in newborns with NRDS. Early risk stratification may improve NICU care.

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases the risk of severe respiratory distress in newborn babies, according to new research conducted at the Penn State College of Medicine in collaboration with ...

A baby is currently awaiting a heart transplant after doctors in Canada dismissed the newborn's "grunting" sounds as being "normal." Parents Stephanie Mulhall-Atkison, 37, and Justin Atkinson, 33, ...

Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. This condition stems primarily from an insufficiency in pulmonary surfactant, a ...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases the risk of severe respiratory distress in newborn babies, according to new research. The risk increases with exposure specifically to fine particulate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As prenatal PM 2.5 exposure rose, so did the odds for assisted ventilation, multiple interventions and systemic ...

Stephanie Mulhall-Atkinson says her daughter, Sloane, has been living in the hospital for more than 200 days as she awaits a heart transplant Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work ...