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Infants start learning by looking immediately after being born!

December 6, 2012
A new finding says that infants begin learning immediately after birth by taking inventory of the things they see. Psychologists from the University of Iowa contend that infants create knowledge by looking at and learning about …

Maternal health initiative: Ask women what they want

August 23, 2012
 The Public Health Foundation has taken a major step in ensuring more women have institutional births.  "Was the labour room clean?", "Was the medical staff polite and caring?" or "Were the mother and baby looked after …

Babies of HIV-positive women show minute levels of antiretroviral drugs

July 23, 2012
Hair and blood samples from three-month-old infants born to HIV-positive mothers surprisingly show exposure, both in the womb and from breast-feeding, to the antiretroviral drugs being taken by their mothers, says a study. "We …

Tinier, larger foetuses likelier to be stillborn

June 28, 2012
The lightest and the heaviest foetuses are at much higher risk of being stillborn than those of average weight, new research has found.  Stillbirth is traditionally defined as the death of a foetus at more than 23 weeks of …