Dr. Shetal Shah (@nicubatman on Instagram and the Other place) Harvard BIDMC Newborn Epidemiology and HSR conference, reminding us that 1. Health insurance for all children is a civil right and 2. Medicaid is the single biggest payor for US births

COLLABORATE, coming 2025, will determine the effects of donor milk, formula, and cow-milk fortifier on surgical NEC, survival & cognition in extremely preterm babies, key questions parents & clinicians have been asking for many years. Explainer & summary here: www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-dat...

The National Neonatal Research Database is an amazing collaborative effort by all neonatal units in England, Scotland & Wales. Read our Christmas Newsletter here sway.cloud.microsoft/TRwgQx0jRac9... @99nicu.bsky.social @neonatalnursesuk.bsky.social @

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COLLABORATE is an efficient, UK-wide, real-world-data-enabled, digital technology-facilitated, adaptive, group-sequential, 2-randomisation, controlled trial to determine clinical efficacy, effect size

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Sharing new paper from our workshop in #PAS2023 Navigating Information Overload on Social Media: Opportunities & Misadventures for Clinicians and Professionals www.newbornjournal.org/abstractArti... @briankingneo.bsky.social @souvikneo.bsky.social #neosky @ebneo.bsky.social @espr-esn.bsky.social

#52MoreChallenge Week 4! Northway WH Jr, Rosan RC, Porter DY. Pulmonary disease following respiratory therapy of hyaline-membrane disease. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia. N Engl J Med. 1967; 276(7):357. PMID: 5334613. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5334613/ #neoSky #neoEBM #52MoreChallenge 1/6...

I guess it's not surprising that our organizations and journals must lag a bit in adoption of a new platform, but they are an important part of the conversation. Let's encourage whatever we're affiliated with to take the leap. We can log them here (currently pretty sparse) go.bsky.app/DwfZqQF

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟 Join us for the inaugural Congress of the European Paediatric Academic Societies (CEPAS) in Lyon, France, from 28–31 October 2026. Mission: Uniting paediatric professionals to advance child health through cutting-edge research, education, and collaboration.👉Learn more at cepas.org

The next AAP SONPM Journal Club is Thursday (December 12th) at 4:00 pm EST. Andrew Beverstock, neonatal fellow, will review the Diamond trial, with mentors Tanith Alexander (trial investigator) and Ariel Salas. #neosky #neoEBM Register - tinyurl.com/c87skbeh Trial- nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

#52MoreChallenge WEEK 3: Saigal S, Feeny D, Rosenbaum P, et al. Self-perceived health status and health-related quality of life of extremely low-birth-weight infants at adolescence. JAMA. 1996; 276(6):453. PMID: 8691552. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8691552/ #neoSky #neoEBM #52MoreChallenge 🧵1/5

A close look at the evidence-base for treating the most premature babies, as in international newborn early-life care guidelines (ILCOR, ERC and Euro-RDS consensus) - take a look and share your thoughts @ebneo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp... @drbretty.bsky.social @donsharkey.bsky.social

@georgetownccf.bsky.social is holding a webinar open to all next Tuesday Dec 10th at 2p ET about Medicaid's financing structure and ways in which the new Congress may try to change it. This will be the first in a series of webinars. You can register here ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/12/03/r...

Register for Webinar: How Medicaid Works & What’s at Stake in 2025

The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) invites you to a special virtual session of our new Child Medicaid Policy Institute. This webinar is free and open to the public. Wh…

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This is a great idea! 💡 ⬇️ #academicsky

Andy Aydın-Aitchison@andy8chi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

There's been a proliferation of "systematic reviews". Are these AI tools playing some role? Authors (and editors, if applicable!) need to apply vigilant assessment of the quality of the reviews. Simply following a checklist does not make a review systematic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?

Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

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Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Yet another problem with systematic reviews: A living review update

In February 2023, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology published ‘The Problems with Systematic Reviews: A living Systematic Review.’ In updating this living review for the first time to incorporate li...

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So look. I've given about 20 talks where I highlight clinical research waste, and I now always ask the audience if they recognize that figure below. The answer is *always* the same - overwhelmingly No. If *you* recognize it, because you are here and informed, you must help spread the word. Please.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking forward to speaking at the NCTO (ncto.ie) end of year event later today. Thanks to @robertoconnor.bsky.social for the opportunity to have my say.

Thank you for publishing! Outcomes of late preterm birth definitely deserves our attention. Don’t miss this recent and excellent commentary by Elaine Boyle et al. www.sfnmjournal.com/article/S174... #Neosky

Late preterm and early term birth: Challenges and dilemmas in clinical practice

The major focus of neonatal research for many years has been the smallest and most vulnerable infants born before 32 weeks of gestation. More recently it has become clear that a gradient of risk for a...

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Cally Tann@callytann.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulation to Jeanie Cheong, Alicia Spittle and colleagues for their @jamacurrent.bsky.social article on outcomes amongst moderate and late preterm infants at 9 years of age highlighting that neurodevelopmental challenges persist into school age 👉 watermark.silverchair.com/cheong_2024_...

Time for #52MoreChallenge WEEK 2 (rebroadcast on BlueSky): Fujiwara T, Maeta H, Chida S, Morita T, Watabe Y, Abe T. Artificial surfactant therapy in hyaline-membrane disease. Lancet. 1980 Jan 12;1(8159):55-9. PMID: 6101413. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6101413/ #neoSky #neoEBM #52MoreChallenge 🧵 1/6

I guess it's not surprising that our organizations and journals must lag a bit in adoption of a new platform, but they are an important part of the conversation. Let's encourage whatever we're affiliated with to take the leap. We can log them here (currently pretty sparse) go.bsky.app/DwfZqQF

Important article on Dexamethasone: Doyle LW, Mainzer R, Cheong JLY. Systemic Postnatal Corticosteroids, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, and Survival Free of Cerebral Palsy. JAMA Pediatr. Published online November 18, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4575 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I'm a bit obsessed w/ de-adoption. To that end... Love these slides f/ Dr. Audrey Hébert, who received the Braden Griffin Award @ the recent 25th Griffen Conference @ University of Massachusetts. "Time to break up with dopamine?" 🤣🤣🤣 www.crchudequebec.ulaval.ca/recherche/ch... #neoEBM #neoSky

Medicaid pays for half of births in the US. It’s the single largest insurer for kids. In some states >70% of Medicaid enrollees are children. When Medicaid is attacked, the losers are children.

Larry Levitt@larrylevitt.bsky.social · 2y ago

It seems highly likely Republicans will propose Medicaid spending reductions to help pay for tax cuts. Whether Medicaid cuts pass is by no means certain. In the past, there has been major pushback from governors, patient groups, hospitals, nursing homes, and insurers.

Moving #52MoreChallenge (ClassicNeo non-RCTs) to BSky! (& repeating 1st month) Week 1 - of course - belongs to Dr. Mel Avery: Avery M, Mead J. Surface properties in relation to atelectasis & HMD. AMA J Dis Children. 1959;97(5,Pt1):517-23 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13649082/ #neoSky #neoEBM 🧵

Surface properties in relation to atelectasis and hyaline membrane disease - PubMed

Surface properties in relation to atelectasis and hyaline membrane disease

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World Prematurity Day: when I was junior resident (SHO) in an NICU, 1981, we saved our 1st 26 wker. Survival now 90%. 2005 my daughter was born at 24 wk; here day 1 & 19 years later, on her way to becoming a nurse. What a privilege to have spent 44 years in this field #NeoSky #worldprematurityday

To join our next webinar register here: 99nicu.org/99nicu-news/... #Neosky #NICU

The Honesty Sessions: a new webinar series in collaboration with Adult Preemie Advocacy Network!

Exciting news! To mark World Prematurity Day, the 99nicu has partnered with the Adult Preemie Advocacy Network to power a series of webinars throughout November, to raise awareness of the varied long ...

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This week, Dr. Jonathan Levin delivered the Douglas Richardson Memorial Lectureship at the 25th Griffin Symposium at U Mass Chan Medical School. Great talk on phenotyping of severe BPD towards precision management, directed (as the best talks are) simultaneously at research and clinical care. 🧵

On World Prematurity Day, I am deeply reminded of the wonders of caring for preterm babies and their families. As a neonatologist, I witness the remarkable resilience of these tiny fighters and the profound love and dedication of their families. Let's take a moment to remember. #worldprematurityday

If you haven’t caught up on the PLUSS trial results yet, published a few days ago in JAMA #neosky #nicusky Link to paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Link to editorial: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Link to audio podcast: edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...

Intratracheal Budesonide Mixed With Surfactant for Extremely Preterm Infants

This randomized trial assesses the effect of intratracheal budesonide mixed with surfactant on survival free of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants.

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I don't want to rain on our (quite pleasant) Blue-Skied picnic over here, but we pediatricians are going eventually to need to wade back in to talking to folks about vaccines, Science, Medicaid &c and the clouds are going to roll in a bit. That's OK because it's what we do. Below thread might help👇

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:

#Measles is making a comeback. It is not a benign disease and is highly contagious. www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/h...

Measles is debilitating, deadly and making a comeback, WHO and CDC warn | CNN

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. About 107,500 pe...

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We were so excited this week to have the incomparable @hhburris deliver the Marie McCormick Lecture in Neonatal-Perinatal Health Services Research and Epidemiology.