A large study across ten hospitals in the Netherlands tested whether an online "sepsis calculator" could safely reduce the number of newborns given antibiotics in their first hours of life. Compared with the usual checklist approach, hospitals using the calculator started antibiotics in far fewer…

If your baby has been in a neonatal intensive care unit, you know the ritual. Before you can reach into the incubator, before you can lift your baby to your chest for skin-to-skin time, a nurse hands you a yellow gown — crinkly, too large, never quite fastening at the back — and sometimes a pair of…