'neonatal' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It is often used in medical or scientific contexts to refer to the first few weeks of a baby's life. Example: The neonatal unit at the hospital specializes in caring for premature babies.
Still, GE's external customers remain extraordinarily diverse - buyers for jet engines do not usually go shopping for nuclear reactors or neonatal incubators.
Otherwise, most of the Western world has already largely abandoned routine neonatal circumcision, which is seen as an outdated and unfortunate medical fad.The exceptions are America, where more than half of newborn boys are still circumcised, and Africa, where circumcision helps to stop the transmission of HIV, the AIDS-causing virus.
Only one of the studies used showed a big increase in neonatal deaths.
Foes have long insisted that baby hatches do not save lives (neonatal deaths have not dropped).
That year it declared China free of maternal and neonatal tetanus.Margaret Chan, the WHO's director-general, this month said that China's regulatory system for vaccines had passed the WHO's evaluation with outstanding results.
The project focuses on neonatal care, and with good reason.
(In human males, there appears to be a similar neonatal surge).
Since 2000 the government has offered subsidies to mothers who give birth in hospitals, thereby reducing health dangers from complications especially the risk of neonatal tetanus.
But Mrs Gates, wielding the wealth of the Gates Foundation, is undaunted: she predicts that in 2013 there is a reasonable prospect of checking the rise in sub-Saharan Africa of neonatal deaths.
Devi Shetty is India's most celebrated heart surgeon, having performed the country's first neonatal heart surgery on a nine-day-old baby, and numbered Mother Teresa among his patients.
On June 24th, Pediatrix Medical Group, America's largest network of neonatal and maternal-health specialists, said it is under investigation for irregular billing of Medicaid, another government insurance programme.Such developments are but the latest in a veritable rash of health-care shenanigans.
