Doctors urge parents to watch for rapid breathing, chest retractions, cyanosis, and feeding issues in babies for early detection of respiratory distress.

New UCLA-led research finds that infants born full term to mothers who were infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy had three times the risk of having respiratory distress compared with unexposed ...

A recent case report from the researchers at the University of São Paulo, published in the journal CLINICS, shows how newborns can also be infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

A gene change may explain why some newborn babies struggle for breath, and could lead to genetic biomarker-based tests to warn of the risk. Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a breathing ...

Infants born full term to mothers who were infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy had three times the risk of having respiratory distress compared with unexposed infants, even though they themselves ...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases the risk of severe respiratory distress in newborn babies, according to new research. The risk increases with exposure specifically to fine particulate ...

Newborns with respiratory distress should be evaluated for primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare genetic disease that has features similar to cystic fibrosis, says Thomas Ferkol, M.D., from Washington ...

clinical-challenge-respiratory-distress-CA0516 A congenital condition is found in an infant with respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. Lily, a 6-week-old infant, presents with difficulty ...

The right lungs are more aerated than the left lungs after surfactant therapy in infants born preterm with respiratory distress syndrome, a study shows.

The article as published, omitted the length of stay data and reported only the mortality data. It does have multiple regression analyses ‘correcting’ for possible differences in risk among patients ...

THE respiratory-distress syndrome, or hyalinemembrane disease, is the commonest cause of death among newborn, especially premature, infants, and yet its pathogenesis remains a mystery and its ...