A neonatal intensive care bill tackles some issues, yet numerous children still die in unprepared emergency rooms.
Recently, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced legislation aimed at requiring hospitals to inform parents about their capability to care for premature infants. This initiative touches on some of the deepest fears all parents harbor: the reality that their children might end up in hospitals lacking the necessary resources to save them. The legislation, which Cotton […]
Mom review – neonatal horror leaves new mother in nightmare of guilt and terror | Movies
dEscape completely inside postnatal depression and psychosis, this horror film blends hallucinations, premonitions, memories and flashbacks. Losing in storytelling accuracy makes up for what they make up for with desperate imprisonment within one new mother's headspace. As soon as she gets home, Meredith (Emily Hampshire) rubs her own birth discharge from the floor. Her husband, […]
Ten babies die in fire at Indian hospital’s neonatal unit
A fire broke out in a neonatal intensive care unit in northern India, killing 10 newborns from burns and suffocation, government officials said Saturday. The fire broke out late Friday at the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College in Jhansi district, about 290 miles southwest of Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow. India's capital introduces stricter pollution control measures […]
Nurse convicted of murdering 7 babies at hospital neonatal unit loses appeal bid
British neonatal nurse Lucy Lettby was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder six more, but lost her appeal. Letby’s offences took place between June 2015 and June 2016 in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in north-west England. The Court of Appeal heard her case in April and announced […]