A simple test can accurately identify which newborn babies are at risk for developing dangerous levels of jaundice. While neonatal jaundice, a yellowing of the skin caused by a buildup of a blood ...

HOUSTON -- (Dec. 4, 2017) -- The first clinical study of a low-cost, hand-held jaundice detector invented by Rice University students couldn't have come at a better time for NEST360°, an international ...

Kernicterus is brain damage caused by severe, untreated jaundice or high blood levels of a substance called bilirubin. The condition is typically associated with severe, untreated cases of jaundice in ...

Singapore, 10 January 2025 – For the first two to three weeks of their lives, infants have to undergo screening for neonatal jaundice (NNJ). It typically involves frequent clinic visits, which is not ...

The body produces bilirubin when it breaks down red blood cells, and the liver helps excrete it. High bilirubin levels in adults can result from liver disease, pancreatitis, some cancers, and other ...

What are normal bilirubin levels in babies? If your child has just been born, there is a possibility that he/she will experience jaundice orNeonatal Jaundice. Jaundicevery often found in newborns.

THE clinical differentiation of atresia of the extrahepatic bile ducts from the intrahepatic conditions causing obstructive jaundice has been a challenge to pediatricians from the time when these two ...