Word: neonatologists
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This may open doors for treatment of other diseases, says the neonatologist...
...neonatologist's first paper on the subject, co-written by Harvard colleague Jere Mead '43, was published in 1959. In the paper, the authors studied the surface tension of lung extracts prepared from babies with hyaline membrane disease, which causes respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and often leads to death...
...epidemic of cocaine-afflicted babies has only become worse. The main reason: growing numbers of women are using crack, the cheap and readily available purified form of cocaine that plagues America's inner cities and has spread into middle-class suburbs. Says Dr. Richard Fulroth, a Stanford University neonatologist: "The women have tears streaming down their cheeks when they tell me, 'In the back of my mind I knew I was hurting my baby, but in the front of it, I needed more rocks...
...past few months, TIME has learned, Baby Gabriel's Canadian physicians kept three other anencephalic children on respirators in order to use their organs for transplantation. "I can't imagine a time when there have been so many advances in medical research that have raised such serious issues," says Neonatologist Lawrence Platt of the University of Southern California. Declares Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota: "Our fear is that somehow reproduction has shifted away from an act that creates a family into an arena in which money, profit and benefit for others...
Ward was preceded on the stand by Dr. Joseph Kennedy Jr., a neonatologist--a scientist dealing with newborn children under 28 days...