New report shows 15 million babies born too soon every year
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 02:10
in Health & Medicine
The first-ever national, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth reveals that 15 million babies are born too soon every year and 1.1 million of those babies die shortly after birth, making premature birth the second-leading cause of death in children under age 5.
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