By spending less than $5 per person on essential health care services such as contraception, medication for serious illnesses and nutritional supplements, millions of maternal and child lives could be saved every year, according ...
Apr 10, 2016
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A fall in the provision of one to one nursing care of very sick and premature newborns is linked to a higher death rate in neonatal intensive care, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal ...
Feb 9, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Tiny newborns who get prolonged skin-to-skin contact with mom while they're in the hospital may have better survival odds, a new review finds.
Dec 22, 2015
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Implementing a home-based volunteer counselling strategy during pregnancy and the first few days of an infant's life in rural Africa may not be enough to improve neonatal survival, despite improvements in childbirth in health ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Screening newborn babies who are in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using a testing process called high-frequency tympanometry can help identify middle-ear problems earlier, according to newly published research from ...
Jul 9, 2015
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In a study published this month in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, researchers from universities including Karolinska Institutet present a new model for identifying "bottlenecks" when it comes to implementing ...
Apr 30, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Antibiotics appear to be overused in many neonatal intensive care units, new research suggests.
Apr 20, 2015
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Newborns and young infants with possible severe bacterial infections (PSBI), such as pneumonia and sepsis, whose families do not accept or cannot access hospital care, can be safely and effectively treated with simplified ...
Apr 2, 2015
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Should whole-genome sequencing be used in the public-health programs that screen newborns for rare conditions? That question is likely to stir debate in coming years in many of the more-than-60 countries that provide newborn ...
Mar 26, 2014
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A series of studies are published in a special supplement that presents results of the Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership—a three-year pilot program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the ...
Feb 18, 2014
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