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The health of any country is judged by the survival of its infants. The United States spends 15% of its gross national product on health care, yet it ranks 21st in the world in its infant mortality rate of 8 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the World Health Organization. The two main contributors to this death rate are prematurity and birth defects.
Aggressive research programs are aimed at trying to understand the pathophysiology of preterm birth, and clinical interventions have been introduced in an attempt to reduce this unacceptably high rate of preterm birth.
Washington Clark Hill, M.D., the guest expert for the Master Class this month, has long studied preterm labor in the context of both singleton and multiple gestations. He has published comprehensive overviews of research on the complications of tocolysis ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A practical perspective on a complicated problem.(THE MASTER CLASS)