Currently, infants aren't a particularly common sight in premium cabins.
Currently, infants born at ≤26 weeks of gestation are at the greatest risk of developing such 'new' BPD [2], a syndrome of arrested lung development with fewer and larger alveoli and dysmorphic vasculature [3].
For example, currently, infants receive their first dose of MMR vaccine at the age of 12 mo.
Currently, infants are scheduled to receive the HBV birth dose within 24 hours after birth, followed by HBV containing vaccine at 6, 10 and 14 weeks of age in combination with diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae b vaccine (DTP- HepB-Hib) [ 11– 13].
This work is a logical extension of the current efforts in developing strategies against these two major killers and timely given the WHO's interest in improving the currently recommended infant vaccine schedules.
Coverage rates for currently recommended infant vaccines remain very high.
To take this year as an example: currently, all infants born in the 12 months up to 31 August 2011 would have been able to enter reception classes in state primaries at the start of the new school year.
In addition, it was verbally explained that in the Netherlands currently 180.000 infants have a heel prick each year.
Strategies to engage dentists who do not currently see infants and toddlers may need to be different.
Understanding the neuroanatomic basis of impaired cognition is of increasing importance in the care of premature infants: currently, in extremely premature infants (born at <1,500 g), the most common neurological disabilities involve cognition and learning, affecting 20 50% of such infants, compared to cerebral palsy which affects 10% [ 39, 42].
