More US babies die day they are born than any industrialized country, report shows

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

The US is a worse place for newborns than 68 other countries, including Egypt, Turkey and Peru, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children.A million babies every year die on the same say they were born globally, including  more than 11,000 American newborns, the report estimates. Most of them could be saved with fairly cheap interventions, the group says.“The birth of a child shou...    

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