OBJECTIVE Traditional population screening focuses on conditions for which early treatment prevents severe morbidity and mortality. The classic example in pediatrics is newborn screening for phenylketonuria, which began in the 1960s. In 1968, Wilson and Jungner delineated 10 criteria that would justify population screening. These criteria have been reaffirmed by many newborn screening task forc...

Intruduction: There is a growing concern about an increasing bilirubin-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND) in healthy term neonates with no evidence of hemolytic disease or other risk factors. This study was done to determine the incidence of BIND in otherwise healthy, breast-fed newborn term infants without hemolysis who underwent exchange transfusion.   Methods: This study was conducted i...

In the present study, pancreas glands in Mehraban breed of female sheep were histomorphometricallystudied in four different age groups included: fetus, newborn, sexually mature and old ages. The results ofhistomorphometrical analysis with regard to frequency and percentage of parenchymal and stromal structures such as, exocrine secretory units, secretory ducts, blood vessels, islets of Langerha...

This Lancet Series on maternal health comes just 1 year after countries committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs call on all stakeholders to leave no one behind in addressing the unfi nished agenda for maternal and child health. The Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (Global Strategy) calls for integrated solutions to prevent maternal, newborn...

The anatomic site of hematopoiesis changes during fetal development from the yolk sac to the liver and finally to the marrow. Factors controlling this switch in the site of hematopoiesis are unknown. We assayed erythroid colony (CFU-E) and erythroid burst (BFU-E) formation in fetal, newborn, and adult baboon liver and marrow to determine the growth requirements of primate hematopoietic progenit...

Infants are well known to seek eye contact, and they prefer to fixate on developmentally meaningful objects, such as the human face. It is also known, that visual abilities are important for the developmental cascades of cognition from later infancy to childhood. It is less understood, however, whether newborn visual abilities relate to later cognitive development, and whether newborn ability f...

Maternal and newborn health (MNH) is a high priority for global health and is included among the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, the slow decline in maternal and newborn mortality jeopardizes achievements of the targets of MDGs. According to UNICEF, 60 million women give birth outside of health facilities, and family planning needs are satisfied for only 50%. Further, skilled birt...

New neurons are continuously added to the dentate gyrus of the adult mammalian brain. During the critical period of a few weeks after birth when newborn neurons progressively mature, a restricted fraction is competitively selected to survive in an experience-dependent manner, a condition for their contribution to memory processes. The mechanisms that control critical stages of experience-depend...

An increased anxiety in security in modern ages has primarily resulted in vast attention being given to biometric-based authentication techniques. Biometrics refers to the automatic authentication of human beings based on their physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. This paper proposes a newborn footprint matching system based on the extraction of texture features using LBP. Newborn a...

An experimental study was conducted to investigate developmental changes of the rat detrusor smooth muscle (DSM) reactivity from newborn to adult period. Urinary bladders were obtained from adult (4 months old), 1-month-old and newborn (4-7 days old) male Sprague-Dawley rats. DSM reactivity of the three groups was evaluated in organ chambers. The newborn DSM strips revealed markedly increased p...