THE NEWBORN CHILD

Improving child health--newborn screening for all?

Over the last 40 years newborn screening has been an undoubted success and many thousands of children have been saved from mental retardation and other problems because of early diagnosis of their disorders. Now many diseases can be diagnosed early by newborn screening and many more are on the horizon. It must be a long-term goal to extend newborn screening tests to all children but, in areas o...

Vasoactivity of the major intracranial arteries in the newborn child.

Parliamentarians: leading the change for maternal, newborn, and child survival?

www.thelancet.com Vol 371 April 12, 2008 1221 attendance at delivery, a main indicator for MDG 5, has increased in north Africa. However, progress in south Asia has been slow and in sub-Saharan Africa has been very limited. The past 2 years have seen rapid changes in the global architecture for health and nutrition, and many new complementary global initiatives have been announced. The Internat...

Serum magnesium levels in the newborn and older child.

In the past, reluctance to determine the serum magnesium level in the newborn infant has been due in part to the relative unreliability of methods hitherto employed (Wacker and Vallee, 1958), and the need for large amounts of blood, particularly where repeat determinations are proposed. In 1964 Rice and Lapara described a rapid, accurate ultramicro method for the determination of ionic magnesiu...

The maternal, newborn, and child health continuum of care

Mothers, newborns, and children are inseparably linked in life and in health care needs. In the past, maternal and child health policy and programmes tended to address the mother and child separately, resulting in gaps in care which especially affect newborn babies. How can these gaps be addressed, especially during birth and the first days of life, when most mothers and newborns die, and at ho...