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Thursday, May 30, 2013

America in Decline: A Baby Born in Parts of Ohio More Likely to Die Than One Born in North Korea or the Gaza Strip

Infant mortality rates higher than those of countries like Japan or Sweden are one thing— but North Korea? The Gaza Strip?  The following article first appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine. Infant mortality within a three-mile radius around one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals, in Cleveland, Ohio, is worse than that in some third-world countries, Dr. Michele Walsh, neonatology direct

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