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Drug Cuts Birth Risk

LOS ANGELES () -- U.S. researchers report that a drug treatment commonly administered to women in preterm labor might have the added benefit of reducing the risk of cerebral palsy in prematurely born infants.


Infants born weighing less than 3.3 pounds account for 25 percent of the estimated 7,000 cases of cerebral palsy diagnosed annually in the United States. The disorder, in which the brain does not properly control muscles and movement, is one of the most common childhood disabilities.


The study, co-written by researchers at the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, showed that very low birthweight infants had a much lower incidence of the disorder when their mothers were treated with magnesium sulfate shortly before giving birth

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