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Pregnant women who use certain popular antidepressants may have a twofold increased risk for delivering babies with a rare but serious lung disorder, a new study finds.

Right as the clock hit midnight on New Year’s Day, two baby girls were born in city hospitals, vying for the title of the Big Apple’s first newborns of 2012.

In the Bronx, Rania Ali — her first name means “queen” — came into the world at Montefiore Medical Center’s North Division.

At the same time, at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, Emma Sieminska was born.

(MedPage Today) -- An anti-HIV drug used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus can be safely and effectively given to newborns for up to six months after birth, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- National guidelines for preventing perinatal group B streptococcal (GBS) disease led to a drop of about 80% and more recent recommendations aimed to cut it even further, authors of a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics noted.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The United Nations says more and better trained midwives could help save millions of lives in many countries with high death rates among newborns and women giving birth....

(MedPage Today) -- When pregnant women receive an influenza vaccination they might be providing protection that extends to their babies after they are born, researchers found.

Women who put on too much weight during their pregnancy are more likely to give birth to newborns with excessive body fat, and this may set their children up for being overweight or obese as they age, a study suggests.

Newborns with low vitamin D levels have a sixfold higher risk of lung infections with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Dutch researchers report.

Infants at age 3 months who had newborn blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D -- a measurement of vitamin D -- below 25 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L) were twice as likely to develop respiratory infections compared with infants who had levels at 75 nmol/L or higher, according to an international study.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) The vitamin D levels of newborn babies appear to predict their risk of respiratory infections during infancy and the occurrence of wheezing during early childhood, but not the risk of developing asthma.