Survival improves in clinical trial for severe birth defect, with or without fetal surgery
...ndard care, according to Sam Hawgood, MD, chief of neonatology at UCSF Children's Hospital and interim chair of the department of pediatrics at UCSF. "When a patient's condition is very complex, as in the case of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, care at every level improves over time," Hawgood said. "This stu...Dartmouth team finds uneven relationship between newborn intensive care and death rates
...y the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "The saga of neonatology is emblematic of how a market driven health care system with inadequate public planning produced too much of a good thing," writes Kevin Grumbach of the University of California, San Francisco, in an editorial for the issue. Noting the importance of ......thin 246 market-based regions. They found that the neonatology workforce varied substantially across neonatal intensive care regions. The number of neonatologists per 10,000 live births ranged from 1.2 to 25.6 with a median of 5.8. Cities such as Washington, DC and Newark, NJ had high numbers, while Lebanon, NH...Cedars-Sinai pediatrician to receive award for his contributions to international child health
.... After completing his post-doctoral fellowship in neonatology at theCardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics at UCSF in 1980,Dr. Sola served as assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at TulaneUniversity School of Medicine. In 1982, he returned to Buenos Aires to directNeonatology at th...