Higher rates of disabilities found in children born prematurely

A premature baby is cared for at a hospital. More than a third of children born before the seventh month of pregnancy are disabled, and the degree of disability rises the earlier they are born, according to a new study published in Saturday's Lancet.

Preterm babies have more severe disabilities the earlier they are born, according to a new National Institute of Health and Medical Research study published in The Lancet medical journal. Researchers found that more than one-third of babies born before the seventh month of pregnancy had disabilities. Yahoo!/Agence France-Presse