News tagged with incubator care

Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare

(AP) -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator - but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cold spots contaminated in high humidity incubators

Microbes in human incubators, like those found in neonatal intensive care units, grow most robustly on cold spots when the relative humidity is at least 60 percent, according to a paper in the December 2011 issue of the journal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Palm-sized baby among the world's smallest

At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces - less than a soda can - she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Puerto Rico struggles with high preterm birth rate

(AP) -- The first thing Dr. Marta Valcarcel notices on a walk through a nursery full of tiny, heavily bandaged babies is the empty incubator in the corner.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UCLA Startup to begin clinical trials for wireless body-monitoring system

(PhysOrg.com) -- MediSens Wireless, a startup company in UCLA's on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute, has obtained approval under federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines to begin ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hundreds of hospital patients line up for tests after possible infection

Some of the 1,851 patients who had tests administered by a Broward General Medical Center nurse alleged to have knowingly violated infection control protocols will know within two weeks if they have contracted hepatitis or ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0