01 Dec 2021 By Tiffany Lee, Office of Research & Economic Development
November is National Prematurity Awareness Month, a time to recognize the challenges faced by the 15 million babies around the world who are born each year before 37 weeks of gestational age. Because these babies miss out on crucial developmental processes that happen in the womb during the last few months of pregnancy, they can face a host of short- and long-term health problems, including cardiac, respiratory and neurological complications.
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