premature mortality

Surgeon Christoph Haller and his research team from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children are working on technology that could someday result in an artificial womb to help extremely premature babies.

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An artificial womb could build a bridge to health for premature babies

12:30pm April 12, 2024

by Rob Stein

Artificial wombs could someday save babies born very prematurely. Even though the experimental technology is still in animal tests, there are mounting questions about its eventual use with humans.

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Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., particularly among younger people, such as members of Generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, and millennials, just a little bit older.

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Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden

12:58pm May 01, 2018

by Rhitu Chatterjee

A nationwide survey by health insurer Cigna finds that loneliness is widespread in America. Millennials and people in Generation Z tend to feel lonelier than retirees.