The most common intestinal condition in newborns, necrotizing enterocolitis happens in about 1% to 5% of infants in the NICU and is more common in low birth weight and premature babies. What causes it? It's thought that a number of factors can contribute to the development of NEC, which is the necrosis, or death, of parts of the intestine.
The embassy of the Russian Federation is situated on Mount Alto on Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, built on property leased to the Soviet government for 85 years on the basis of an agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States, concluded in 1969.
Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York City, and other areas of the New York metropolitan area, are home to by far the largest Russian population in the United States. The Russian American population is reported to be 3.13 million. Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the U.S. Census.