Pragmatic Expansion of a Neonatal Antibiotic Stewardship Program in a Community Health Care System.

Background: Previously published neonatal antibiotic stewardship efforts have been primarily implemented in single centers. Piedmont Athens Regional began work to decrease antibiotic use in the NICU with spread to the newborn nursery (NBN) and, subsequently, 13 other NICUs and NBNs throughout a health care system over a 4-year period.

Methods: This quality improvement initiative was conducted in the context of a multicenter learning collaborative from 2016 to 2019.

Perinatal exposure to alcohol: implications for lung development and disease.

In utero alcohol exposure dramatically increases the risk of premature delivery. However, the majority of premature and term newborns exposed to alcohol remain undetected by medical caregivers. There is a desperate need for reliable and accurate biomarkers of alcohol exposure for the term and premature newborn population.

A jet impingement investigation of osteoblastic cell adhesion.

When designing dental and orthopedic implants, it is important to consider phenomena occurring at the microscopic level, particularly at the bone-implant interface. The presence of hard tissue at this interface is essential to implant viability. The integrity of this tissue-biomaterial interface is dependent on appropriate osteoblast functions (adhesion, matrix deposition, etc.