Category: Healthcare

What is the Newborn Screening Clearinghouse?

Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Featured Topics, Healthcare, Intellectual Disability 01/09/2020 admin

Baby’s First Test houses the nation’s newborn screening clearinghouse. The clearinghouse provides current educational and family support and services information, materials, and resources about newborn screening at the local, state, and national levels and serves as the Clearinghouse for newborn screening information. The clearinghouse is supported and funded as a result of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act passed in 2008. Continued support for the clearinghouse is possible under the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization […]

Autism symptoms severity varies greatly among identical twins

Autism, Featured Topics, Healthcare 12/30/201912/27/2019 admin

Findings from NIH-funded study could inform treatment strategies. WHAT: Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severity even though they share the same DNA, according to an analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings suggest that identifying the causes of this variability may inform the treatment of ASD-related symptoms. The study was conducted by John Constantino, M.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, […]

Three anti-seizure drugs equally effective for severe form of epilepsy

Epilepsy, Featured Topics, Healthcare 12/27/2019 admin

NIH-funded research shows no difference in efficacy or adverse effects of commonly used treatments. There are three treatment options commonly used by doctors in the emergency room to treat patients with refractory status epilepticus, severe seizures that continue even after benzodiazepine medications, which are effective in controlling seizures in more than two-thirds of patients. New findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveal that the three drugs, levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, and valproate, are equally […]

Updated Report Provides Sweeping Review of Evidence Concerning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism, Featured Topics, Healthcare 12/19/2019 admin

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated its clinical recommendations on autism spectrum disorder for the first time in 12 years, analyzing the latest research on the neurodevelopmental disorder that affects an estimated 1 in every 59 children. “Identification, Evaluation, and Management of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” a clinical report published in the January 2020 Pediatrics, emphasizes the importance of early identification of autism, which can be diagnosed as young as 18 months […]

How babies at the Children’s Wisconsin NICU get personalized milk every day

Featured Topics, Healthcare 12/12/201912/09/2019 admin

Every child in a hospital has medications that are specially selected, prepared and measured just for them in the hospital pharmacy. But in the NICU at Children’s Wisconsin, babies also get individualized doses of breast milk — mixed, fortified and designed specifically for their unique needs and delivered to their bedside. Human milk is an amazing and complex substance — in fact, in a single feeding or pumping session, a mother’s milk can change from […]