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March of Dimes Launches 7th Annual Prematurity Awareness Month

The March of Dimes has launched its 7th Annual Prematurity Awareness Month, once again focusing our attention on the growing problem of premature birth in the United States.  A birth is considered premature if it occurs before 37 weeks gestation.
The March of Dimes is the leading non-profit organization in the United States focusing its attention [...]

Mother claimed £130,000 in benefits faked son’s illness

A 35-year-old British mother claimed £130,000 in benefits by faking her son’s illness, making him appear to be, “one of the sickest children in Britain”, even more disturbing was that she was giving him false medication and forcing him to have surgery.
Police said his bedroom was like ‘a scene out of the TV show Casualty’ [...]

IVF Twins Have Greater Risk Of Serious Illness Or Early Death

Twins conceived from IVF have been found in a study to be at greater risk of serious illness or dying within their first three years of live than twins which have been conceived naturally.
The study also found that twins born as a result of fertility treatment stay in hospital on average four days longer after [...]

Help Support The Plight Of Premature Babies

The number of premature births since the early 1980s have increased 27 percent.
Currently, one in eight babies is born premature, making it as common as polio was in the 1940s.
It is unclear why there has been an increase in premature birth rates. Some of the babies survive thanks to the advances in technology and [...]

Brain Injury Baby Awarded $4.4 Million

Parents of a baby who died 5 years after suffering from a brain injury during her birth in 2003 have been awarded $4.4 million.
Baby Sierra Wilson was born on November 18, 2003 in Piedmont Medical Center, South Carolina. The parents claimed that their daughter was born with brain damage and had later developed cerebral palsy [...]