For more than half a century neonatologists and ethicists alike have struggled with ethical dilemmas surrounding infants born at the limits of viability. Both doctors and parents face difficult decisions. Do we try to save these babies, knowing that such efforts are likely to be unsuccessful? Or do we provide only comfort care, knowing that, in doing so, you will inevitably allow some babies to...

This special issue brings together a collection of papers examining the legal dimensions housing precarity. While we originally imagined focused on homelessness and human rights, agree with our contributors that precarity sits along disparate spectrum, at one end. People weave in out living situations, whether shelters, apartments, rooming houses, encampments. Human their violation, are engaged...

Controversy regarding the optimal design for neonatal intensive care has existed for more than 20 years. Recent evidence confirms that in comparison with the traditional open-bay design, the single-room facility provides for improved control of excessive noise and light, improved staff and parental satisfaction with care and equal, or possibly reduced, cost of care. Single-room care was not ass...

There is increasing concern in Canada regarding growing pressures on emergency room care. Frequent media reports call attention to overcrowding, lengthy waiting times and the re-routing of ambulances due to the closure of emergency rooms during periods of overcrowding. Much of this information, however, is anecdotal. As such, little is known about patients' experiences in emergency rooms in Can...

Introduction: at the beginning and establishment of breastfeeding, adequate care routines are essential, such as its early initiation skin-to-skin contact, which implies need to facilitate joint accommodation mother with newborn in immediate postpartum period, regardless type delivery. Objective: analyze effects rooming-in after a cesarean section on breastfeeding rates hospital discharge maint...