Sentences with phrase «affected babies born each year»

Of the 1 million or so affected babies born each year in China, some 20 to 30 percent may be treated, but 40 percent will have permanent disabilities.

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Just speaking on the topic I have tried desperately to learn as much as I can understand about in the past year, heart defects affect one in a hundred babies born.

My first - born suffered from eczema for two years of her life and today, I want other moms to know more about this skin condition and how it can affect their babies.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preterm birth affects nearly 500,000 babies each year, or one of every eight born in the U.S..

Worldwide, roughly 10,000 affected children nicknamed «thalidomide babies» were born with multiple defects, including the characteristic shortened upper limbs (a condition known as phocomelia, Greek for «seal limbs»), before the drug was discontinued in 1961 after four years on the market.

In the United States, approximately 1,200 pregnancies are affected by anencephaly and 1,500 babies are born with spina bifida each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

«CDC researchers have found that since folic acid fortification began in the United States, about 1,300 babies are born each year without a neural tube defect who might otherwise have been affected,» she said.