Doctors Need More Medical Devices for Babies
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Frustrated doctors say they too often find themselves jury-rigging adult medical devices to fit children's tiny bodies and special needs. Now pediatric experts have begun a major push to fill the gap.
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Doctors need guidance on how to avoid problems using technology to reach patients, says a researcher.
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Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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The chaos of neonatal care is giving way to dim lights, a parentsâs touch and privacy.
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Devices made of heart tissue could screen drugs and power implantable robots.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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Consumers may soon have more information to help them select a doctor when they need an operation or other serious medical procedure.
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In a desperate move to save an infant, doctors sought a device they had never tried before: a miniaturized pump called the Berlin Heart.
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful and even life-threatening medications to treat an array of problems.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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More patients must allow medical students to provide care, to safeguard doctors' training, researchers say.
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As many as 1,000 stillbirths each year could be prevented if clinicians were able to spot when foetuses were not developing properly, a study suggests.
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Good news for the nation's babies: Nearly 90 percent of newborns are getting tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic disorders.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar - via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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A new initiative to encourage the development of more medicines designed specifically for use in children was announced today by Health Minister, Lord Warner.
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Virtual reality techniques are helping Danish doctors diagnose heart defects in newborn babies.