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Pregnancy
Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010

Open quoteThe overall message, for the first time in a generation, is one of persistent and welcome progress.Close quote

  • DR. RICHARD HORTON,
  • editor of medical journal the Lancet, on a report that the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth dropped to 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980, good news for what has long been considered an intractable problem
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