by Bruce Brown | March 11, 2021 | Medical
Approximately 60% of babies have jaundice, according to the CDC. Jaundice occurs when a newborn’s liver is not sufficiently developed to take over the chore of removing bilirubin from the baby’s blood, which was done by the mother’s liver prior to...
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by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2019 | Health
Approximately 60% of all babies have jaundice according to the CDC. Mild cases of jaundice in newborns go away in a few weeks, but higher levels of bilirubin, a substance that indicates jaundice severity, may require treatment. The most common treatment for newborn...
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by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2018 | General News, Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network reported good news last year: the 5-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with the disease increased from 6% to 9%. Because pancreatic cancer is asymptomatic in early stages, most cases metastasize before diagnosis. In the same...
by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2015 | Medical
Some infants are born with jaundice, which is a condition when the compound bilirubin build up in the blood stream due to the breakdown of blood cells. This gives the skin a characteristic yellow tinge. The most common treatment is blue light that causes the...
