Birth-weight boost tied to cleaner air during Beijing Olympics

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 10:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Babies whose eighth month of gestation fell during the 2008 Beijing Olympics were born slightly heavier than babies born a year earlier or later, a stark indication of the effects of pollution on development.

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