Children who spend extra week in the womb have higher school test scores, risk disability

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 13:50 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have found that spending a week longer in the womb may give babies a tiny leg up on cognitive ability. The trade-off, however, seems to be a slight increase in the chance of having a physical disability. A group including University of Florida Health researcher Jeffrey Roth, Ph.D., found that babies born at late […]

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