U.S. gets low marks for rise in premature birth rate

Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 15:14 in Health & Medicine

March of Dimes score is a D. Fueling the rise could be later motherhood, more multiple births and an increase in C-sections. Last month, the U.S. received a set of grades from the March of Dimes, the nation's leading organization committed to preventing preterm births, that were nothing short of horrible.

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