New Information About Premature Births (For Consumers) A new
study finds that prematurity is the most frequent cause of
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10/6/2006 by CDC Division of Reproductive Health. Date Released:
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– safer, healthier people. Interviewer: A new paper has been
published by a group of scientists who reveal that preterm birth
is the most frequent reason why infants die. Dr. William
Callaghan, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Division of Reproductive Health, is one of the authors of the
paper describing this finding. Dr. Callaghan, welcome and thank
you for being here today. Please tell us about the paper and
what’s important for us to know. Dr. Callaghan: We were
interested in understanding the problem of infant mortality that
is why approximately seven out of every one thousand infants die
during the first year of life. To