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Press Releases

New Report Shows 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon Every Year; Calls for Increased Research

The first-ever national, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth reveals that 15 million babies are born too soon every year and 1.1 million of those babies die shortly after birth, making premature birth the second-leading cause of death in children under age 5.
May 02, 2012

New Biorepository Opens in Seattle to Help Uncover Mysteries of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Rare combination of pregnancy specimens and data now available to scientists
Mar 08, 2012

15 Major Global Health Organizations form Frontline Health Workers Coalition

New Coalition is calling on the U.S. government for more strategic investment in frontline health workers in the developing world as the most cost-effective way to save the lives of mothers and children.
Jan 11, 2012

Quest to End Premature Births Worldwide Takes Momentous Step Forward

Gates Foundation grants $20 Million to GAPPS at Seattle Children’s to engage researchers from around the world in groundbreaking research
Nov 05, 2011

First-Ever Global Review Examines Measures to Prevent over 3.2 million Stillbirths Globally

GAPPS
Aug 31, 2011

2.6 million babies stillborn in 2009, new global and country estimates published in Lancet Series

World Health Organization
Apr 18, 2011

New report points way to reduce preterm births and stillbirths

BioMed Central
Feb 23, 2010

Reducing 13 million preterm births, 3.2 million stillbirths critical to meeting global maternal and

GAPPS
Feb 23, 2010

Global Health Leaders Gather to Address Urgent Crisis of Prematurity and Stillbirth

GAPPS
Apr 21, 2009

Researchers Aim to Prevent Global Prematurity and Stillbirths

Seattle Children's
Feb 18, 2008

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