Many baby deaths 'can be stopped'
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As many as 1,000 stillbirths each year could be prevented if clinicians were able to spot when foetuses were not developing properly, a study suggests.
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The number of city kids who have died from abuse or neglect this year is up an alarming 57%, officials said yesterday. Some 58 kids died from suspected maltreatment during the first nine months
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Global efforts to promote childhood  immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have  helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under  age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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NAIROBI  - Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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NEW YORK  - A study from Israel indicates that women who have had a stillborn child are at greater risk of dying over the subsequent decades than women who've had only live-born babies.
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Infectious diseases kill a surprisingly large number of women during pregnancy, according to a study published on Tuesday that suggests many maternal deaths in the developing world are preventable.
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Babies born by caesarean are nearly three times more likely to die in the first month than those born naturally, research shows.
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About 160,000 infants die each year in the Asia-Pacific region due to a decline in breastfeeding, a UNICEF expert told a regional conference on Wednesday.
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An overwhelming majority of cases where a family suffers multiple cot deaths is down to natural causes, a study says.
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Medical experts have welcomed proposed changes to the way investigations into sudden infant deaths are handled. An independent inquiry has produced a report which proposes a major re-think of the way such cases are scrutinised.
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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Air fresheners and aerosols can damage of the health of babies and their mothers, warn researchers.
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Action Medical Research claims that babies' lives are being put at risk by a lack of government funding.
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Waiting up to two minutes to cut the umbilical cord after a premature baby is born reduces brain bleeding risk, say researchers.
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Support staff hired to help midwives could put mothers and babies at risk by doing their jobs, claims a report.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq (news - web sites), one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday.