Jaundice is a common condition that affects more than half of full-term babies, but how much do you know about it? Here’s ...
In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be termed physiological. It affects around 60% of term babies and around 80% ...
A special care baby unit has said it is now able to diagnose jaundice within minutes, describing it as a "real game changer".
Infant jaundice occurs because the baby's blood contains an excess of bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin), a yellow pigment of red blood cells. It usually occurs because a baby's liver isn't mature enough ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The extent of Jaundice (icterus) with Baby. [Getty Images] According to Dr Adnaan Mustafa ...
It uses a machine learning model to predict bilirubin levels in Asian babies of various ethnicities. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The tragedy of its occurrence is compounded by the fact that, if newborn jaundice and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia are detected early, kernicterus is completely preventable. All newborn infants are ...
SINGAPORE: Parents may soon be able to scan for signs of jaundice in their newborns from the comfort of home via an app developed specifically for the skin tones of Asian babies. Neonatal jaundice ...
Most of them, however, only take a single point of reference such as the forehead to determine if the newborn has jaundice. "In fact, a newborn with jaundice can have varying degree of yellowness ...
In 2017, a medical professor from the University of Lagos said 700,000 people had the condition. For many of those living with cerebral palsy in the country, their condition was caused by a common ...
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