The rate of infant mortality was 9,7 in male newborns, and 8,3 for every 1000 female newborns.

Do newborns already look like their fathers?

In 2001, it was 9,1 for every 1000 newborns, while it remained the same in 1999 and 2000, amounting to 11,2 to every 1000 newborns.

So jaundice affects two thirds of newborns around the world.

In a room of 40 newborns, not one of them was crying.

So we're dosing our babies, our newborns, our infants, with a synthetic estrogen.

Kazakhstan was the first CIS country to vaccinate all newborns against viral hepatitis B.

The objective is to improve the health of low income pregnant women and their newborns.

249. All newborns are entitled to medical care from qualified personnel (see para. 246 above).

Life expectancy The table below presents information about the life expectancy of newborns (data the CSD).

They provide care for newborns, monitor their development, provide care and consultations on nourishment, immunization, etc.

During the past 20 years, the Chinese government has been paying attention to the treatment of newborns.

This visualization could explain, for example, why newborns, or smokers, put, instinctively, their fingers in the mouth.

J. Lowy, EPA raises estimate of newborns exposed to mercury, Scripps Howard News Service, February 4, 2004.

The goal is to reduce 15 of the mortality rate of pregnant women and newborns by 2007.

(b) Organizing a nation wide screening programme for early detection and treatment of congenital thyroid malfunctions in newborns

25 of all local governments (59) supported families by providing them baby kits which contained items needed by newborns.

The main cause of death in newborns is congenital deformity (29.4 per cent), followed by miscarriage (23.9 per cent).

The Special Committee was informed that an estimated 15,000 newborns in East Jerusalem currently did not have medical insurance.

After the war, due to different types of registration, there were large variations of death rates for newborns in different regions.

Births assisted by traditional midwives and the acute lack of hygiene and precautions often endanger the health of women and newborns.

Grandparents now range in age from 35 to 105, and grandchildren from newborns to retirees, giving rise to a wide variety of grandparenting styles.

When the death rate of newborns of Bosnia and Herzegovina is compared with that of Western Europe, we can see that the former is twice as high.

Medical care for pregnant women and newborns is provided by primary medical and health care institutions, hospitals, and special medical and other health care institutions (article 61 of the law).

As reported by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 61 Palestinian women had given birth at checkpoints between September 2000 and December 2004, resulting in the death of 36 newborns.

Of those newborns, one in 10 roughly, if it's not treated, the jaundice gets so severe that it leads to either a life long disability, or the kids could even die.

It turns out half of those kids, or about 1.8 million newborns around the world, would make it if you could just keep them warm for the first three days, maybe the first week.

Regarding family planning, there is a national health program known as the Mother Child Program (SMI), which provides information and health care services to women in fertile age, as well as to the newborns.

232. Low birth weight is a direct indicator of maternal malnutrition and is a risk for newborns (see annex 63 National Commitment to Mothers and Children and National Plan of Action for Mothers and Children).

The reporter found in this confinement center that the nurses would check the newborn breastfeeding each day, and the professional nursing workers would provide the newborns with the careful nursing services, such as bathing and touching.

Subsequently, in a meeting between the representatives of the departments of the Single Health System it was agreed upon the goal to reduce the mortality rate of women and newborns by 15 by the year 2007.

From the beginning of the second intifada to March 2004, 55 Palestinian women have given birth at checkpoints and 33 newborns were stillborn at checkpoints, owing to delays or denial of permission to reach medical facilities.

Currently, an alarming number of newborns die because of infection, mothers failure to breastfeed during the first days, or other preventable causes. By training community health workers, the NRHM has achieved a marked reduction in newborn deaths in Indian villages.

In BiH before the war, in 1990, the number of abortions, as methods of family planning was 66.625 and it almost reached the number of newborns 67.278During the war, this ratio climbs up to 2,5 1 in favor of abortion.

Myanmar had tackled the serious problem of mortality rates for children under 5 through programmes for safe motherhood, safe delivery and early care for newborns, women's and children's health, greater immunization coverage, promotion of oral hydration therapy and improved nutrition.

In the future, Children's Hospital of Fudan University will continue to promote and implement these methods in the whole country, aiming at comprehensively reducing the occurrence rates of all complications in premature infants and improving the quality of treatment for newborns in China.

Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world but his team learned a hard lesson when it failed to go into production. A manifesto on the importance of designing for real world use, rather than accolades.

Pregnant HIV infected IDUs transmit the virus to their babies, and sometimes shockingly often in Russia abandon their newborns, relinquishing them to the state. The people infected by IDUs also can infect others sexually, further fortifying the bridge into the general population.

Over the past five years, UNICEF has played a leading role in demonstrating that it is feasible to reduce parent to child transmission of HIV if infected women have access to HIV testing and receive anti retroviral (ARV) prophylaxis for themselves and their newborns.

The percentage of newborns that dies in the first six days after they've been born is high despite the low rate of infant mortality and amounts to 60,7 , so the rate of early neonatal mortality is 5,5 which presents a decrease in comparison to 2000.

The additional cost of maintaining essential newborn health interventions at 90 coverage in the 75 countries with the highest mortality is estimated to be a mere 4.1billion per year. This would supplement current spending of 2 billion, only about 30 of which is for interventions specifically aimed at newborns, while the majority is for interventions that also benefit mothers and older children.

Perhaps the most compelling observation in recent years is that subdural hemorrhages are present in nearly half of normal, healthy newborns with no evidence of birth trauma. These findings, combined with the immature anatomy of the infant dura, suggest that dural bleeding in young babies may be a natural protective device a reservoir to prevent backflow into the brain s blood vessels during the pressure fluctuations of normal labor and delivery.

At the current rate of progress, neither the Millennium Development Goal of reducing under five mortality by two thirds from 1990 levels (Goal 4) nor the other health and nutrition related Goals will be achieved unless effective health and nutrition interventions are implemented at high rates of coverage in geographic areas within and across countries with high levels of mortality and undernutrition among mothers, newborns and children under five years of age.