Dear Friends Prof. Dr. Adik Levin, Tallinn, Estonia It was so nice to be in Innsbruck. This meeting was organised very well. For me it was important that we didn't speak about only healthy children. A lot of presentations were done for sick and preterm babies. Europe was the first place where the BFHI movement [...]

What future Course do You Take, Neonatal Medicine? Adik Levin The wonderful results that are being achieved nowadays in rendering help to ill newborns and infants of low birth weight (ILB) appear to be of great significance. In many developed countries, good results have been achived in caring for infants between 500 and 700 grams [...]

"Where are you going, neonatal medicine?" Adik Levin MD, PhD, Director of Newborn and Premature Children's department, Children's hospital, EE0018 Tallinn, Tervise 29, Estonia In almost all East European countries the old health care system is broken now, and most of these countries are thinking how to integrate into a new one. The main problem [...]

The Mother-Infant Unit at Tallinn Children's Hospital, Estonia: A Truly Baby-Friendly Unit Adik Levin. MD. PhD BIRTH 21:1 March, 1994 ABSTRACT: A mother-infant neonatal unit was established in 1979 at Tallinn Children's Hospital in Estonia to provide medical and nursing care to newborn and premature babies and their mothers. Its leading principles are 24-hour care [...]

N-nitrosodimethylamine, nitrate and nitrate-reducing microorganisms in human milk J Uibu 1, O Tauts 2, A Levin 3, N Shimanovskaya 1 and R Matto 1 Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine 1, Tallinn Technical University 2 and Tallinn Children's Hospital 3, Estonia Acta Pædiatr 1996;85:1140-2. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-5253. Of 54 milk samples from 54 healthy nursing [...]

Harrison, RN, PhD, and Marshall H. Klaus, MD BIRTH 21:1 March 1994; 45-6 Lynda Harrison is Professor of Nursing and Assistant Academic Vice President at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Marshall Klaus is Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of California. San Francisco. California. This report by Adik Levin begins to balance [...]

Adik Levin. MD. PhD BIRTH 21:1 March, 1994 ABSTRACT: A mother-infant neonatal unit was established in 1979 at Tallinn Children's Hospital in Estonia to provide medical and nursing care to newborn and premature babies and their mothers. Its leading principles are 24-hour care by the mother, minimal use of technology, and little contact between the [...]

J Uibu 1, O Tauts 2, A Levin 3, N Shimanovskaya 1 and R Matto 1 Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine 1, Tallinn Technical University 2 and Tallinn Children's Hospital 3, Estonia Acta Pædiatr 1996;85:1140-2. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-5253. Of 54 milk samples from 54 healthy nursing women analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines, 42 appeared negative. [...]

The report about the "Human Neonatal Care Initiative" by Professor Adik Levin from Estonia reminds us that medical care innovation did not disappear during the years of Soviet rule. More importantly, the ideas and programs developed by Professor Levin parallel humanizing efforts by family-focused neonatologists around the world. Hopefully, these ideas will stimulate all neonatologists [...]

The author has worked for many years in experimental departments in the former Soviet health system. Now, with integration into the western health system, many questions are being asked about high-technology neonatal medicine and whether it is sufficiently humane. The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) movement is well known all over the world, but unfortunately [...]