Day: 19 December 2016

New national pilot scheme to fast track treatment for babies with complicated ‘strawberry birthmarks’.

New national pilot scheme to fast track treatment for babies with complicated ‘strawberry birthmarks’. Doctors at Cork University Hospital have devised a new photo-triage system for babies with infantile haemangiomas (also known as strawberry birthmarks). What are infantile haemangiomas? An ‘infantile haemangioma’ is a type of vascular birthmark, which consists of a soft, raised overgrowth […]