Half premature babies 'face risk'
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Nearly half of extremely premature babies who survive develop a disability or learning difficulty, a study says.
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Each year more than one million babies in sub-Saharan Africa die before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Obese pregnant women may have  an increased risk of losing their baby relatively late in  pregnancy, and black women appear particularly at risk, a large  study suggests.
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Far more babies may be damaged in the womb as a result of their mother's drinking habits than was assumed, the British Medical Association warned today.
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The majority of deaths of newborn babies in Scotland could not have been avoided, a study finds.
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Larger babies have higher risk of developing certain cancers in adulthood, research suggests.
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Babies slow to grow in the womb who play catch-up in their first weeks of life after birth risk chest illnesses, research shows.
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NEW YORK  - Women who take multivitamins  before becoming pregnant are less likely to give birth to  premature babies, new study findings suggest.
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Nearly 40 percent of the 128 million babies born worldwide every year are not officially registered, and two thirds of deaths also go undocumented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Premature infants, known as preemies, come into the world earlier than full- term infants. Prematurity occurs when a pregnancy lasts fewer than 37 weeks;  full-term infants are born 38 to 42 weeks after they are conceived. Age in  premature babies is often defined in postconceptional weeks (the number of  weeks after the baby was conceived) until the baby is 40 weeks old, which is  the average age of a full-term baby.
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Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are particularly anxious about their pregnancy may be at increased risk of premature delivery, a new study suggests.
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Â· Brain development may suffer as early as 17 weeksÂ· Charity urges supportive environment in pregnancy
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Health centers staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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More than three-quarters of children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time they reach school age, British researchers report.
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More than half of all hospital patients are at risk of blood clots but many do not receive simple treatment that could prevent them, British researchers said on Thursday.
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Action Medical Research claims that babies' lives are being put at risk by a lack of government funding.