Home Births Linked to Higher Rate of Newborn Deaths

Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Babies who are born at home are nearly four times more likely to die during the first weeks of life than babies born in hospitals, according to a new study of births in the U.S. that were attended by midwives.

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