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Close contact intervention between a mother and her premature baby may reduce risk of infant mortality by almost a third

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A method of care involving skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her prematurely born or low birth weight baby appears to impact the child’s chances of survival significantly, suggests a study published online in the journal BMJ Global Health.


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