Kristie McNealy, MD

Several articles have popped up in the past couple of weeks that I think you’ll all be interested in. The first two are positive news on the preeclampsia research front, and number three is a new study that may lead to a reduction in chronic lung disease in preemies who experience respiratory distress syndrome [...]

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have determined that a gene which affects the severity of a variety of serious lung conditions, including asthma and cystic fibrosis, also affects fetal lung maturity. These researchers have shown that premature mouse pups bred to have low levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) had less developed [...]

A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that even healthy preemies have decreased respiratory function into the second year of life. Researchers performed pulmonary function tests on preemies born between 30 and 34 weeks gestation at an average of 15 months of age, and compared them [...]