
A low-cost antiseptic used to cleanse the cord after birth could help reduce infant death rates in developing countries by 12%, suggests a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. Authors of the review found that when chlorhexidine was used on babies born outside of a hospital, it reduces the number of newborn babies who died or suffer from infections. A third of deaths in newborn babies are caused by infections. As one of the World Health ...

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