Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease: Neonatology Questions and Controversies

1.Stem Cell Facts for Neonatologist, Mervin Yoder 2.Current Issues in the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Thrombocytopenia, Martha Sola- Visner, Matthew Saxonhouse 3.The role of recombinant leukocyte colony-stimulating factors in the neonatal intensive care unit, Robert Christensen 4.Why, When and How should we provide red blood cell transfusions to neonates? Robin Ohls 5.Controversies in Neonatal Thrombotic Disorders, Marilyn Manco-Johnson 6.Practical approaches to the neutropenic neonate, Akhil Maheshwari 7.What evidence supports dietary intervention to prevent infant allergy and food allergy development? David Osborne, John Sinn 8.Toll Like Receptor Responses in Neonatal Dendritic Cells, Fabienne Willems, Stanlis Goriely, Ezra Aksoy 9.Maternally-mediated Neonatal Autoimmunity, Anne Stevens, Neelufar Mozaffarian 10.What insights into human cord blood lymphocyte function can be gleaned from studying newborn mice? Cheri Landers, Subbarao Bondada 11.Influence of Passive Antibodies on the Immune Response of Young Infants, WP Glezen 12.Neonatal T-Cell Immunity and its Regulation by Innate Immunity an Dendritic Cells? David Lewis 13.Breast milk infection, Marianne Forsgren, Lars Naver, Bjorn Fischler 14.Control of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Philip Toltzis 15.Neonatal Fungal Infections, Charles Sims, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner 16.Has intrapartum prophylaxis for GBBS sepsis changed the spectrum of organisms causing neonatal sepsis? Gary Overturf