Opioid-exposed babies are those whose brains and/or bodies have been affected because their parents used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy. It can lead to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, where the ...

including recommendations that pregnant patients be screened for substance use disorder and hospital staff be trained on neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. In September, the AAP released its ...

Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth ...

Avoid abrupt cessation. Elderly. Cachectic. Debilitated. Pregnancy; potential neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome during prolonged use. Labor & delivery: not recommended. Nursing mothers ...

Paramedics used Naloxone and CPR to stabilize the 2-month-old twin infants and transported them ... "Even though opioid-involved deaths were down in general, the fentanyl deaths involved deaths ...

It also wants to increase access to methadone and similar medications to reduce the sickness from opioid withdrawal. The county has seen some progress, with the number of deaths from drug use ...

Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. However, mortality rates from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) rose significantly -- by 11.8% -- from 2020 to 2022.

Paramedics used Naloxone and CPR to stabilize the 2-month-old twin infants and transported them to the Hennepin ... in the number of deaths for the first time since 2018. "Even though opioid-involved ...