Human error blamed for 2 preemie deaths
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Two premature infants died after receiving adult doses of a blood thinner, a hospital said Sunday, blaming the incident on human error.
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WASHINGTON The World Health Organization says one in ten hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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Newborns should be screened for heart abnormalities to reduce the risk of cot death, researchers say.
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Disparities in the US health-care system result in up to 79,000 premature deaths each year because of a lack of preventative treatments and care for chronic conditions like diabetes
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Simplicity Inc, a supplier of baby furniture to Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other big retailers, is recalling about 1 million Chinese-made baby cribs that have been linked to at least two infant deaths, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday.
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Specialists are to study rare disorders in pregnancy, some of which can prove fatal.
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Pregnant women who suffer a  miscarriage in the second-trimester are at high risk during a  subsequent pregnancy of a spontaneous preterm birth and repeat  second-trimester miscarriage, a study indicates.
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Scientists have come closer to solving the riddle of cot death with the discovery that more than half of all babies who die unexpectedly may have had problems in the womb.
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Young children are the most likely victims of surgery-related medication mistakes, a new study has found, and poor communication is the most likely culprit.
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A simple urine test during pregnancy could someday predict which women are likely to develop dangerously high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills hundreds of mothers-to-be each year in the United States and leads to 15 percent of all premature births, researchers say.
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Mistakes and other incidents in hospitals ranging from administrative errors to drug overdoses frequently endanger newborns and are often preventable, French researchers reported on Thursday.
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Support staff hired to help midwives could put mothers and babies at risk by doing their jobs, claims a report.
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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By the time she was 8 years old, J.B. had been hospitalized 200 times  and had undergone more than 40 operations, including the removal of most of her  intestines. K.C., a 2-year-old boy, was hospitalized more than 20 times due to  complications from asthma, severe pneumonia, mysterious infections, and sudden  fevers. His doctors were baffled and unable to determine the cause of these  illnesses. In a family with five children, one after another died of sudden infant  death syndrome (SIDS).
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NEW YORK  - More than three-quarters of  children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are  affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time  they reach school age, British researchers report.