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Rates of Survival Increasing for Extremely Preterm Infants, NIH Network Finds

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2015. Extremely preterm infants, those born before the 28th week of pregnancy, are surviving in greater numbers and escaping serious illness, according to a comprehensive review of births in a National Institutes of Health research network.

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The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reviewed the birth records of more than 35,000 premature infants born from 1993 to 2012 in 26 U.S. centers participating in the Neonatal Research Network,…

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