A 3-year study in Israel shows pooled-saliva congenital cytomegalovirus universal screening identifies hidden infections in ...

Prenatal infections can increase the risk of serious health complications including miscarriage, organ damage, birth defect, or even death. Prevention of prenatal infection begins with taking ...

Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a leading cause of hearing loss and neurologic disabilities in children worldwide. Infants with symptomatic congenital CMV infection at birth are at ...

On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a difficult case: a months-old infant who had developed pneumonia. While many infants with pneumonia recover, this ...

With congenital syphilis at a 30-year high in the US, experts stress that early and universal syphilis screening in pregnancy is vital to protect both mothers and newborns from preventable harm. Study ...

MISSOURI, USA — Suzanne Alexander remembers vividly the reports of the St. Louis babies born with congenital syphilis. Blindness, deafness, developmental delays. Some were underweight. Others had ...

Congenital syphilis represents one of the most devastating yet preventable threats to infant health, with cases climbing at an alarming rate across the United States. This resurgent public health ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open journal, researchers evaluated the relationship between congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Study: ...

States are seeing an alarming surge in cases of congenital syphilis, a preventable infection that can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death — or lifelong complications such as blindness or ...

To highlight the importance of actively looking for concomitant cCMV as a routine evaluation of patients presenting with cholestasis and receiving a diagnosis of an inherited liver disease, ...