Women with their babies at the launch of the ‘newborn week celebration’ at Government Kilpauk Hospital in Chennai on Monday.CHENNAI: About 31 per cent of deaths of newborns in the State occur due to low birth weight and about 40 per cent of infant deaths occur within the first week of birth, even though the baby may be born in a hospital.Paediatricians say the first few minutes in a child’s life are...
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Women with their babies at the launch of the ‘newborn week celebration’ at Government Kilpauk Hospital in Chennai on Monday.CHENNAI: About 31 per cent of deaths of newborns in the State occur due to low birth weight and about 40 per cent of infant deaths occur within the first week of birth, even though the baby may be born in a hospital.Paediatricians say the first few minutes in a child’s life are...
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WellPoint's affiliated Life and Disability Companies are pleased to announce Newborn and Parenting Resources - a new service designed to help new mothers adjust to their newborn baby and return to work after maternity leave. Newborn and Parenting Resources are available to all new and in-force short term disability plans offered by the affiliates effective 1/1/2010.New moms have access to Newborn and...
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Every year, nearly 1.2 million newborns die in India, most within first few days after birth-- Authorities are investigating the death of six newborns at a government hospital in southern India over allegations of equipment failure and staff negligence.Doctors said the babies either had congenital defects or were premature, said K. Dharma Reddy, a top administrative official for Vijaywada city.Some...
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newborn in Alabama is afflicted with paralyzed vocal chords. 
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Five newborn babies tonight diedunder mysterious circumstances in the infants? ward of ahospital in Vijayawada, around 300 kms from here, triggeringprotest by their parents.Doctors at the old government general hospital claimedthree babies died a natural death and enquiry is on toascertain the cause of the death of the other two infants.Meanwhile, parents of the deceased alleged that thebabies died...
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size="2">Washington, Nov. 6: Long before their birth, infants begin picking up elements of their first language in the womb, says a new study. After analysing the cries of 60 healthy newborns, a team of researchers from University of Wurzburg in Germany, found that "human neonates are not just capable of producing different cry melodies, they prefer to produce those melody patterns...
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Think newborns just eat, sleep and wail the same way across the world? That's not so, according to a new study which found that babies cry with an accent within the first week of life.By recording cries of 60 babies born to French or German parents, researchers discovered thatwith the same "prosody" or melody used in their native language by the second day of life.French newborns in the study ended...
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the moment a newborn switches from amniotic fluid to breathing air, another profound shift occurs: nerve cells in the brain convert from hyperexcitability to a calm frame against which outside signals can be detected."Fetal neurons need hyperexcitability for proper development, because they are moving to the right places (in the brain) and forming the right connections," said Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D.,...
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Vanesa Edith Castillo Guzmán is reunited with her daughter Diana Fernanda Castillo.Authorities: Doctors, hospital personnel would tell parents that babies had died-- Mexican authorities have arrested three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist accused of stealing newborns at a private hospital and selling them, the Mexico City attorney general's office says.A married couple and a woman also were arrested...
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