Vital Statistics: Trends Shift, With Births on the Rise
Monday, January 19, 2009 - 21:35
in Health & Medicine
A new national report on childbirth suggests that some long-term trends may be reversing themselves. The report, published Jan. 7 by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that more babies were born in 2006 than in any year since 1961. And after a 14-year period of decline, births among teenagers 15 to 19 rose 3 percent in 2006 from the year before.
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