Study examines decrease in delivery-related rate of death of infants born at term
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing factor being a decrease in the number of deaths caused by a lack of oxygen for the baby during the childbirth process, according to a study in the August 12 issue of JAMA.