Study examines decrease in delivery-related rate of death of infants born at term

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 05:56 in Health & Medicine

During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing factor being a decrease in the number of deaths caused by a lack of oxygen for the baby during the childbirth process, according to a study in the 12 August issue of JAMA...

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