Don't rely on jaundiced eye for assessing newborns

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 12:28 in Health & Medicine

For hundreds of years, doctors, nurses and midwives have visually examined newborn babies for the yellowish skin tones that signify jaundice, judging that more extensive jaundice carried a greater risk of illness...

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