The tragedy of its occurrence is compounded by the fact that, if newborn jaundice and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia are detected early, kernicterus is completely preventable. All newborn infants are ...

In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be termed physiological. It affects around 60% of term babies and around 80% ...

Infant jaundice occurs because the baby's blood contains an excess of bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin), a yellow pigment of red blood cells. It usually occurs because a baby's liver isn't mature enough ...

Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilizes an extensive database of over 50,000 individual bilirubin measurements of close to 10,000 newborns with a total of about 100,000 individual patient ...