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Premature birth needs to be in specialist centres - study
Thursday October 17th, 2019
Women facing premature labour should be enabled to give birth in hospitals with specialist neonatal intensive care units, researchers say today.
A major research project has found that these babies fare much better if they are born close to the unit – rather than being transferred to a specialist centre.
The study, reported in The BMJ, also showed that premature babies were more likely to die if they were born in a non-specialist hospital – and stayed there- than in a specialist hospital.
How GPs can respond to private gene test results
Thursday October 17th, 2019
Doctors confronted by patients armed with the results of private gene testing should check for family genetic history that might support the claimed results, according to experts today. More
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