News tagged with infant mortality rate
US tops world in health care spending, results lag
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on health care than the industrialized world's average, an economic group said Tuesday.
First of its kind study identifies risk factors for LRTIs in Inuit children
May 21, 2009 |
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May 21, 2009 — Inuit children have the highest rate of hospital admission for Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) globally, but new research shows that lowering risk factors though public health interventions and an ...
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Preterm birth contributes to growing number of infant deaths
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Babies born too soon and too small accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths, according to new statistics released today from the National Center for Health Statistics, (NCHS).
Nearly 28,000 US infants died in 2004
May 04, 2007 |
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Preterm birth contributes to more than one-third of all infant deaths, according to the National Vital Statistics report released today.
Premature births worsen US infant death rate
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday.
Was SIDS the cause of infant deaths even 150 years ago?
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Nineteenth century infant deaths attributed to smothering and overlaying, by either a co-sleeper or bedding, were in all likelihood crib deaths, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). These deaths would have been mislabeled ...
Infant deaths increase in South
Apr 22, 2007 |
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Cuts in welfare and poor medical care may be responsible for a sharp increase in infant deaths in Mississippi and neighboring states, doctors said.
CDC says life expectancy in US up, deaths not
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes ...
Morther's obesity a factor in newborn deaths for blacks, not whites, new study reports
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A study led by the University of South Florida sheds new light on obesity's role in the black-white gap in infant mortality. While maternal obesity appears to have no impact on the early survival of infants born to white ...
Hidden tragedy of under reported neonatal mortality
Mar 28, 2008 |
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In Northern Vietnam, neonatal mortality is almost four times higher than the official figure according to a report published today in the open access journal BMC International Health and Human Rights. This under-reporting could ...
Newborn vitamin A reduces infant mortality
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 07, 2008 |
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A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
UT Southwestern hospital halves its rate of premature births, researchers find
Feb 27, 2009 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center's primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found.
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