TODAYS HEALTH: GROUP B STREP

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Event Date(s): 08/19/1993 | Event Location(s): Today New York Studio | Description: TODAYS HEALTH: GROUP B STREP ATKINSON REPORTS LIVE ON-CAMERA FROM TODAY NEW YORK STUDIO. LISA MOSES SINGS WITH YOUNG SPECIAL ED STUDENTS. SHOT OF MOSES FREEZES TO STILL WITH SUPERS PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES; PREMATURE LABOR SEEN. SHE PLAYS WITH LITTLE BOY. IN INTERVIEW LISA SAYS HER HEARTBEAT HAD DROPPED BUT AT EXAMS NO ONE ELSE SEEMED CONCERNED; NOTES THE BABY MICHELLE DIED THE DAY BEFORE SHE WAS BORN WHICH WAS ON HER DUE DATE; AND CLAIMS THE GROUP B STREP JUST MADE HER HEART STOP. OBSTETRICIAN EXAMINES PREGNANT WOMEN. WOMAN GIVING BIRTH AND NEW BORN BEING CLEANED SEEN. LISA SAYS IT WAS HARD TO KNOW PENICILLIN WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING A BABY AND NOT HAVING A BABY. CRIBS SEEN IN NURSERY. REPORT LABELED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PREVENTION OF EARLY ONSET NEONATAL GBS INFECTION SEEN. IN INTERVIEW DR. DONALD GROMISH FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS SAYS BY TESTING AT 26-28 WEEKS ONLY SMALL PERCENT OF STREP WILL BE MISSED. CRYING NEW BORN IS CLEANED. IN INTERVIEW AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OB-GYNS DR. SHELDON CHERRY EXPLAINS REASONS WHY AMERICAN COLLEGE HASNT ENDORSED CULTURE TESTS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN. NEW MOTHER TOUCHES HER NEWBORN WHO CRIES. CHERRY SAYS ITS HIGH PRICE FOR SMALL GROUP OF WOMEN AND YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE PROTECTING THEM. DOCTOR EXAMINES INFANT WITH STETHOSCOPE. NEW BORN SLEEPS IN HOSPITAL NURSERY. GRAPHIC CADUCEUS WITH SUPERS HIGH RISK SIGNALS; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES; PROLONGED RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES; HIGH FEVER OF MOTHER BEFORE OR DURING LABOR; HISTORY OF GBS IN PREVIOUS BIRTH SEEN. OUTDOORS LISA HOLDS CAT. KEITH LEADS HORSE OUT OF STABLE; THEY BRUSH HORSE. IN INTERVIEW KEITH SAYS THEY WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT SO NO ONE GOES THROUGH WHAT THEY DID. LISA AND KEITH SAY ITS WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR MICHELLE. EMPTY CRIBS IN NURSERY SEEN. ATKINSON ENGAGES IN X-TALK WITH GUMBEL. CSNS 93H1222 TA; EJ=3:35; UNABLE TO ESTABLISH LOCATION Producers: NBC