Categories: For Midwives

Published: September 5, 2011 in the New York Times By NICHOLAS BAKALAR According to a new analysis, the United States now ranks 41st in the world in terms of neonatal mortality, the death rate of infants less than one month old. The rate is higher in the United States than in, among others, Cuba, Slovakia, Croatia and all of Western Europe and Scandinavia.

To read the entire article in the New York Times, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/research/06childbirth.html?_r=1&src=rechp