Now,a doctor in Senegal who specializes in newborn care is leading a program financed by the Ministry of Health and UNICEF.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Doctor Bernadette Daelmans is an expert on newborn and child health development for the World Health Organization.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tested blood from the umbilical cords of thirty-seven newborn babies.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

How you sleep can be as important as how much you sleep especially for newborn babies.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

Their work could give infected mothers in the developing world a new way to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus to their newborn babies.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

They used to lose three-fourths of their newborn calves each year.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

In west and central Africa, one newborn in twenty dies.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Prematurity is the leading cause of death in newborn babies.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

And,the newborn mice were able to feed without problems.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Newborn babies should be kept out of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Women who gave birth vaginally transferred the unique mix, their unique "community" of vaginal bacterial to the newborn baby.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

There's a sense of joy in the evening, as newborn turtles wriggle out of their nest and waddle to the ocean to begin their lives.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

The numbers sound staggering: , Two million preventable maternal deaths,stillbirths and newborn deaths every year.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Yet the United Nation's children's fund says only one percent of those HIV positive mothers-to-be has access to drugs that would prevent transmission to their newborn.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

The researchers suspect that the newborn c-section babies might be picking up their generic bacteria mix from the air - one way bacteria gets on our skin.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

The interventions can be as simple as keeping the newborn warm.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

The results are mixed. For example, the report says progress is being made in bringing down child deaths, but there has been little or no movement in maternal and newborn health.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"We provide care for elderly people, for mothers to be, for newborn babies,for children, and we provide long-term care for certain groups of patients who have what we would describe as chronic illnesses,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24