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Window to the womb.(THE MASTER CLASS)
The modern success of a nation is often judged on the basis of its infant mortality rate. In the United States, our infant mortality rate hovers around 6 or 7 deaths per 1,000 live births. Our world ranking certainly deserves improvement.
Two central contributors to infant mortality are prematurity and birth defects. One involves the uterus; the other, the fetus. Significant strides to improve these factors would make a profound difference to the mothers and babies of the future.
In this month's column, Curtis L. Lowery, M.D., introduces an evolving technology that may shed light on the basic states and functions of both the uterus and the fetus.
In the history of obstetrics, most attempts to understand uterine pathophysiology--during either normal or abnormal labor--have failed. One critical unmet need involves an understanding of the signals or processes that initiate labor, so that abnormal variants can be illuminated and the way to intervention can be seen. Magnetomyography is beginning to provide basic data that may enhance that understanding.
We have been equally stymied in attempts to fully ...
- Multiples and mortality.(MASTER CLASS)
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Reece, E. Albert January 1, 2006 700+ words
Infant mortality is a problem of major...in the world in its infant mortality rate, below countries...The causes of our high infant mortality rate are complex and...will not attempt in Master Class to address them all...
- A practical perspective on a complicated problem.(THE MASTER CLASS)
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Reece, E. Albert February 1, 2005 700+ words
...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...Washington Clark Hill, M.D., the guest expert for the Master Class this month, has long studied preterm labor in the context...
- Infant mortality rates are proxies for use of neonatal intensive care units in...
- Newspaper article from: Healthcare Strategic Management March 1, 2002 700+ words
...conclusions can be drawn from the latest infant mortality statistics published in the National...that there will be higher rates of infant mortality and more multiples births. For all races, the infant mortality rate was 7.0 per 1000 live births...
- KDHE: State infant mortality rate down
- Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal Taylor Atkins July 17, 2009 700+ words
...Department of Health and Environment. The infant mortality rate dropped to 7.2 deaths per 1...compared to 7.9 per 1,000 in 2007. "Infant mortality is seen as a critical measurement...disproportionately higher." The 2008 infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic blacks was...
- Differences in infant mortality between blacks and whites - United States,...
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report April 29, 1994 700+ words
...2000 include reducing the overall infant mortality rate (i.e., deaths at age [less...births (objective 14.1) and the infant mortality rate for blacks to no more than 11...the race-specific differences in infant mortality. During 1979-1981, infant mortality...
- Comparison of infant mortality rates across counties in Florida.
- Newspaper article from: American Journal of Health Studies Watts, Graham, Sr. Webb, Fern Jureidini Carney, Dawn Goodridge June 22, 2005 700+ words
...secondary data analysis study examined infant mortality rates (IMR) of counties in Florida...made significant progress in reducing infant mortality since creation of "... the American...for [the] Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality" in 1909 (Brosco, 1999). During...
- U.S. steps up infant mortality prevention
- Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner Richard Thorpe December 15, 1994 700+ words
...Banner 12-15-1994 U.S. steps up infant mortality prevention. In industries such as...year initiative aimed at reducing infant mortality. The program, which began Oct...get concerned [about] the black infant mortality rate in all those sites....Disparity...
- DRAMATIC DROP IN OUR INFANT MORTALITY RATE PROGRAMS WORK, OFFICIALS SAY, BUT...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Paulson, Tom August 2, 1996 700+ words
...dramatic and significant drop'' in infant mortality rates for Seattle and King County...twice as high as for whites. ``Infant mortality is one of the most sensitive indicators...Healthier Babies,'' from the agency's infant mortality review team. Beyond the statistics...
