Preterm birth: The new leading cause of death

According to this NPR article there are thousands of different diseases around the world that could potentially kill babies. But no single disease out weighs the deadly risks of being born prematurely. Every year, 1.09 million children under age five die from health complications that can be traced back to being born three or more weeks early.

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The UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2013.

The article is written in blocked form with different bolded subheads guiding the readers eye. Even though it comes from NPR it does not feature any audio and solely offers up the news. The article starts with important statistics and information about premature births and their health risks, then continues to answer questions in order of most to least important.

There are also incredible sources in the article. Information was gathered from credible sources such as the director of the Institute for International Programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, The Lancet, and Science Translational Medicine. Graphics came from the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.  Every detail of the article gave depth and reliability rather than fluff or jargon.

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