ABC Law Centers owner and managing partner, Jesse Reiter, is excited to commit to three more years of financing the Reiter HIE Research Fund. This fund supports the research of Dr. John Donald E. Barks, who is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a recent summary of pregnancy-related deaths from 2008-2017 (1). The data summarized was voluntarily given to the CDC by 14 Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs) across the country. In an effort to understand the incidence of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S., these committees reported a vast amount…
Sildenafil citrate is the phosphodiesterase-V inhibitor more commonly known as the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra (1). A recent trial study of sildenafil was performed by Saleish Kumar of the Mater Research Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia. The aim of the study was to reduce the instance of fetal distress during labor. Fetal distress…
A January study in The Journal of Nutrition found a link between supplementation of amino acid leucine and improved muscle tone and volume in adolescents and adults with cerebral palsy (CP) (1). Such a link could offer easy relief to various issues stemming from weak or inflamed muscle tissue. Leucine is a part of the…
A recent study by the Center for American Progress found that parents of children with disabilities are experiencing “meaningful obstacles to accessing child care” (1). This conclusion came from several data sources, including the 2016-2018 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), the 2016 Early Childhood Program Participation Survey (ECPP), and interviews conducted in 2019…
Recent research suggests that nurses may be more likely to make medication errors around the time they receive phone calls. Christopher P. Bonafide and colleagues recently published a study (1) in JAMA Pediatrics, focused on mobile telephone interruptions in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This study included 257 nurses and 3308 patients, and considered…
The brachial plexus is a network of nerves located near the neck. In some cases, when the birth of a child is traumatic due to use of excessive traction by the delivering caregiver, these nerves can tear. There are a variety of medical complications and errors that can lead to birth trauma and brachial plexus…
For babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), contact with parents can be calming and promote good health. However, a parent’s touch can also increase their risk of contracting a potentially dangerous neonatal infection, such as Staphylococcus aureus. Researchers from John Hopkins Medicine (headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland) recently conducted a preliminary clinical trial on…
Medical professionals who care for newborns must know a great deal about managing neonatal breathing complications. They should be skilled at providing resuscitation, intubation, and other forms of respiratory assistance to infants that require it. Mismanagement of neonatal breathing complications can result in a variety of serious birth injuries, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, pneumothorax, hypocarbia,…
In 2018, ABC Law Centers owner Jesse Reiter established the Reiter HIE Research Fund with the goal of supporting research into treatments for infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). He recently contributed an additional $5,000 to this important cause. The Reiter HIE Research Fund supports the work of Dr. John Barks and colleagues at Michigan Medicine,…
