Chemist Direct Encourages Skin Contact and Breastfeeding for Newborn Infants
The Department of Health confirmed the importance of breastfeeding in their latest infant feeding profile report which shows a correlation of lower inpatient admissions for under one year olds in areas with higher breastfeeding rates.
Nepal: Making a difference
Since its inception in 1988, the FCHV programme has proven to be a key factor in Nepal’s dramatic reduction in maternal and child mortality.
Nepal: Government announces free ‘newborn package’
Existing rates of neonatal death caused by hypothermia, pneumonia and other infectious diseases could be checked by warm clothing, health officials said.
You can reduce chances of baby coming prematurely
Southeastern Uganda is leading in premature births mainly because of malnutrition and malaria. Uganda also ranks 11th in the number of deaths due to complications from pre-term birth.
Bangladesh: Preterm birth causes 45% newborn deaths: Survey
In Bangladesh, every year approximately 76,000 newborns die and around 88% of neonatal deaths are from three preventable causes.
Baby Boys at Higher Risk of Death, Disability in Preterm Births
Groundbreaking global studies on preterm birth and disability carried out by almost 50 researchers at 35 institutions and launched in association with World Prematurity Day finds baby boys are at a higher risk of death and disability due to preterm birth than baby girls
Typhoon babies fight against odds in ravaged Philippine city
Many of the 80 babies born in the hospital since the typhoon came prematurely, their mothers shocked into labor by Friday’s trauma.
Baby steps to saving lives
In rural Tanzania, about one in every 30 premature babies won’t make it past four weeks.However, most of those lives could be saved with simple advice for mothers. And that advice, says an international group of researchers, could start with just a footprint.
Portable jaundice therapy could save infants’ lives
Nearly 8 in 10 premature babies, their livers still immature, suffer from jaundice – a build-up of blood pigment that turns their eyes and skin yellow and becomes toxic in the brain.
Nigeria: Outreach Children Hospital celebrates preterm survival
Outreach Children Hospital is a paediatric, neonatal and maternal medical service provider in Lagos with keen interest in other areas of medical value such as continuous professional development, medical equipment supplies and research.