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Fri Aug 5

Common method of preventing early births may be causing more

Written by Lindsay Kindinger, Prematurity Clinical research fellow, Imperial College London

Preterm babies are at significant risk of health and development problems, highlighting the need to get prevention strategies right.from www.shutterstock.com.au

New research has found a commonly used method of preventing early or preterm birth (delivery of a baby before 37 weeks) may in fact be causing more to occur, and leading to further problems....

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