Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Disabilities common in very premature babies

From the CEC Smart Brief:

Although recent medical advances have improved very premature babies' chances of survival, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates they did not reduce the infants' risk for disability. According to the research, a large proportion of babies born prematurely with weights of 2.2 pounds or less had low IQ, asthma, cerebral palsy or at least one other kind of significant disability. San Francisco Chronicle/The New York Times (7/20)

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