An Oklahoma City, Oklahoma family wants their baby boy with newborn jaundice to live a normal life after he developed the condition when he was just six days old, NewsOn6.com reports. The baby, Jos Hawkins, now suffers from a severe case of the jaundice that has resulted in hearing loss and brain injuries, according to the news provider. The baby's mother, Crystal Hawkins, told the news source that her baby's case of newborn jaundice was so extreme that medical personnel quickly knew that a brain injury had occurred, leaving him unable to see or hear. Joseph Hawkins, the boy's father, [...]

Newborn jaundice, which is a condition developed by most babies at birth, can cause permanent brain damage in the infants, making it necessary for parents to know the symptoms, according to doctors. According to News4Jax.com, doctors at Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, are teaching new mothers what to look for. "It's a type of bile pigment that we all produce in our body and starts accumulating in the baby's blood and starts depositing in skin, causing yellow color," Dr. Renu Sharma, a neonatologist at Memorial Hospital, told the news provider. The yellow color is reportedly the first sign that the [...]

A recent Danish study suggests that babies with newborn jaundice have a higher risk of developing autism than other babies.  According to the study, which examined nearly 734,000 children born between 1994 and 2004, babies with jaundice – high levels of bilirubin which causes the skin to turn yellow – were 67 percent more likely to be diagnosed with autism. Additionally, the risk was higher for babies born between October and March. Newborn jaundice lawsuits, such as a recent case against Inland Valley Medical Center in California, often stem from allegations that a baby was prematurely delivered with the high [...]