Word: preterm
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...ripple effect of preterm births doesn't stop with the hard-hit baby and family. It costs employers 15 times more when employees have preemies, says a new March of Dimes study...
Nearly 11 million children under age 5 die annually, more than a third of them from neonatal problems like preterm birth. The other top causes...
...sharply among blacks, the group at highest risk. Among the issues raised when kids have kids are grave medical consequences. Such births are linked to serious health risks for the mothers--16% of whom receive no prenatal care--and the babies, who are far more likely to be born preterm and three times as likely to die during their first year compared with U.S. babies overall...
Assisted reproduction isn't the only problem. Doctors have long known that smoking, uterine infection, high blood pressure and a prior history of preterm delivery also place an expectant mother at greater risk of delivering early. They're looking into the possibility that other factors, such as stress, diet (both before and after conception) and inflammation may also play a role. But they have something of a medical mystery on their hands. "Nearly half of preterm births are from unclear causes," says Dr. Nancy Green, medical director of the March of Dimes, which is in the early stages...
Doctors admit that some of their best ideas for preventing early delivery haven't worked very well. A drug called Ritodrine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1980, successfully stops preterm labor in many women, but subsequent studies have shown that it has no overall effect on a baby's health or survival. Treating all uterine infections, no matter how mild, also appears to make no difference on the timing of delivery--suggesting that infection is only one stage in a larger, much more complex process. "We've been taking the one-cause-at-a-time...