Preterm birth - defined as delivery before the 37 th week of pregnancy - is one of the leading causes of infant deaths in the United States. Babies born prematurely are also at an increased risk of ...

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Tennessee’s infant mortality rate has dipped since 2019 but remains significantly and persistently higher than the national ...

Kansas has slightly improved in a national scorecard of maternal and infant health but there are still places to to better, especially when it comes to the health of women and babies of color. Every ...

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Introduction Many neonatal deaths are avoidable using existing low-cost evidence-based interventions. This study evaluated ...

New Delhi: India’s apex health research agency is set to kick off a nationwide exercise to evaluate the efficacy and coverage of interventions currently under way to tackle the issue of preterm births ...