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The article focuses on the health surveys to evaluate the prevalence of neonatal tetanus (NT) in India, conducted by the Immunization Division of the Ministry of Health, Family Welfare in November 2007. It states that the goal of the surveys was to assess whether NT has been eliminated in the states of Goa, Punjab and Sikkim, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. It was found that no deaths from NT took place in the surveyed areas among children born between October 16, 2006-October 14, 2007.

The article discusses the first-ever model of the immune system of a newborn infant. Topics include the number of newborns in Asia and Africa that die annually from preventable infectious diseases, the lack of vaccines for newborns, and the creation of a novel way of modelling the newborn immune system by Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz, Ofer Levy, and colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, to improve the development of vaccines for newborns.

Cites a study by the U.S. Collaborative Perinatal Project, headed by Richard L. Naeye of Pennsylvania State University Medical Center, to examine the impact of cigarette smoking on the health of unborn and newborn children. Data source of the study; Risk of miscarriage; Increased of placenta praevia condition in women who left smoking before pregnancy.