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Tracking birth defects. (Policy Practice).
Most states do a poor job of tracking birth defects, and opportunities for identifying possible causes such as environmental exposure are being lost, a report says. The causes of most birth defects are still unknown, and researchers lack data to explore these links. The report was written by the Trust for America's Health, a ...
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