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New clues to preemies' chances
A new study might help parents decide whether to try to save a very premature infant.
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 04/17/2008 12:58:12 AM MDT
ATLANTA — Doctors now have a better way of helping parents make an agonizing decision — whether to take heroic steps to save a very premature baby. The number of weeks in the womb has generally been the chief factor. But a new study shows others are important, too — including whether the infant is a girl and whether the fetus gets lung-maturing steroids shortly before birth. Those extra factors can count as much as an extra week of pregnancy.
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Read the research behind this story in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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