In a series of 114 very low birth weight infants, environmental risk factors like exposure to pets and cigarette smoke was associated with an increased risk of respiratory disease at one year.  Here.

In children in the epicure study, 308 children of less than 25 weeks gestational age at birth were followed up to 6 years old, and had a wide range of respiratory problems.  Here.

Maternal smoking reduces the levels of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in infants.  Here.

73% of 102 newborn infants in this US series had some sort of facial asymmetry.  Here.

Leading Article:Rose, Ramsay and Leaf look at the strategies which can be used to get children home from the neonatal unit in a timely fashion. Here.

Introduction of an early weighing policy led to an improvement in detection of neonatal hypernatraemic dehydration.  Here.

In a series of 21 infants of methadone using mothers and 20 case controls tested with flash visual evoked responses, infants of methadone using mothers had delayed visual maturation.  Here.

In analysis of data from 67 high risk infants monitored over a total of 3452 days, pulse oximetry was superior to impedence monitoring in detecting true events, although both had very high false positive rates.  Here.

Perspective:  Dowodu and Wagner look at strategies to prevent vitamin D deficiency in mothers and children.  Here.

Perpective:  Clarke and Shearer review the history of discovery and rediscovery of this rare but important bleeding disorder of the newborn.  Here.