OBJECTIVE: To investigate causes of death in infants who died after 28 days, beyond the neonatal period but before discharge from the nursery, to establish their clinical courses and causes of death ...

Recent public messaging from the Ministry of Health has drawn attention to what was described as a major milestone at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia.

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers reviewed the association between specific delivery management interventions (DMI) and neonatal severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has a high maternal death rate and an even higher stillbirth and neonatal death rate. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have a longstanding maternal neonatal ...

Pregnancy predisposes to a heightened risk for infection. Previously, available data on coronaviruses and other ribonucleic acid (RNA) respiratory viruses suggested rare occurrences of transplacental ...

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IN 2016 around 1m newborn babies took their last breath on the same day as their first. A further 1.6m didn’t survive a month, and 2.6m more were stillborn—half of whom were alive at the start of ...

It’s a moment in a woman’s life that’s supposed to be one of the happiest – and, nine months in the making, one that’s the ultimate in anticipation and test of patience. But what happens when your ...

A recent drop in stillbirths and newborn deaths in the United States might be linked to an increase in term or near-term births, a new study suggests. The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA ...

A rainbow baby is a healthy baby born to a parent or family who has previously lost a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death. The term refers to a baby’s ability to help the parent or ...