Birth attendant and maternal hand-washing associated with reduced newborn death rate

Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 14:14 in Health & Medicine

Washing hands with soap and water before delivering a newborn infant is associated with a lower rate of neonatal deaths in developing countries, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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