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Utah updates birth certificate questions

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California hospital specializes in treating the infant brain

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Nation gets a "D" in new March of Dimes report

Our country is failing hundreds of thousands of its youngest citizens on the day they are born, according to the March of Dimes. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy hd In the first of what will be an annual Premature Birth Report Card, the nation received a “D” and not a single state earned an “A,” when the March of Dimes compared actual preterm birth rates to the national Healthy People 2010 objective. The only state to earn a “B” was Vermont.  Eight others earned a “C,” 23 states earned a “D,” and 18 states, including Texas, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia got failing grades of “F.” War Wolves video The National Healthy People 2010 preterm birth objective is to lower the rate to 7.6 percent of all live births.  Latest available data (2005) show that the national preterm birth rate is 12.7 percent. In Texas, the…
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