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New butter/Nutributter® now being tested for pregnant moms
May 21, 2013

By this point, you may be familiar with Plumpy'Nut®, the miraculous peanut paste in a foil pouch that is being used to treat children with severe acute malnutrition in communities around the world. To recap: the genius of this innovation is that children can be treated at home rather than as inpatients.

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Checking in on... the State of the World's Mothers Report
May 15, 2013

The first day of life is also the most risky, both for the infant--and often for the mother. This year's report on the State of the World's Mothers came out last week. The focus of this report is on the first day of life. Save the Children, authors of the report, developed the first-ever "Birth Day Risk Index" to assess newborn odds of survival on that very first day that they are born.

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Miracle Cleanse for the Umbilical Cord: Chlorhexidine and Neonatal Navels
April 24, 2013

The period between birth and the first week of life is one of the most treacherous for a newborn and its mother, and in low-resource settings the high risk of infection compounds the dangers to both. One of the more common threats to newborns, particularly in these settings, are umbilical infections, which render a newborn’s umbilical cord both a line to life and an anchor for deadly infection.

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Maternova Joins the Fight for More Frontline Health Workers
April 23, 2013

Simply put, the world needs many more frontline health workers. If we’re looking for an approximate number it would be adding 350,000 to global health efforts through 2015. Seems like an attainable goal, right? Not so fast… the job description isn’t glamorous, low pay (if any pay at all), and nearly zero benefits. People are hardly clamoring to dive into a vocations with a notoriously high burnout rate.

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More on the improvised anti shock garment made of bicycle inner tubes
April 15, 2013

A bicycle inner tube? Where were we on this? Well to continue the story, in 2009 Drs. Mark Hauswald, Nancy Kerr and colleagues published in the International Journal of Emergency Medicine. Their findings were on an improvised pneumatic anti-shock garment. At that stage, the device was three inner tubes, one around each leg and one around the pelvic area. The tubes were pumped up to 45 psi. They found that both the improvised (bike tire) device and the non-pneumatic anti shock garment decreased distal aortic blood flow but that the improvised device decreased it by a higher margin.

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