Newborn Care: What We Can Learn from the Kangaroo Mother
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1 Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA 6 Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA *Correspondence: [email protected]
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