Cleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of disease and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, by the numbers to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, conducted in rural Bangladesh in while with ICDDR,B and a Bangladeshi NGO Shimantik and funded by the United States Agency for International growth (USAID) and Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives program, is the latest in a series of studies showing that umbilical cord housemaid with chlorhexidine can save lives...

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