If a recent blood test shows elevated bilirubin levels, there’s a chance you could have a common and generally harmless genetic condition known as Gilbert Syndrome, which is pronounced “Jill-bear,” ...

The 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines slightly raised phototherapy thresholds for most infants to balance preventing encephalopathy with avoiding the harms of over treatment: This update ...

Bilirubin, the primary breakdown product of hemoproteins, particularly hemoglobin, plays a key role in the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of liver diseases. In acute liver diseases, such as ...

More than 15 years in the making, the revised AAP Clinical Practice Guideline Revision: Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation was released in 2022. A key ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Long-term pale stool might be a sign of conditions that affect the bile ducts, liver, or gallbladder.  Newborns with neonatal jaundice may have clay-colored stool due ...

Reliance on the visual signs of jaundice could put newborn babies, particularly those born prematurely and those with black and brown skin, at risk of serious harm, the healthcare safety watchdog has ...

High levels of bilirubin exacerbated damage to neurons in the brain caused by a stroke by binding to the TRPM2 channel, which helped regulate cell death among other processes. The research, published ...

Albumin-bilirubin grades are independently associated with the risk for all-cause mortality among ICU patients with pulmonary edema.