Preterm birth now leading global killer of young children

(Hoffman & Hoffman Worldwide) For the first time in history, the complications of preterm birth outrank all other causes as the world's number one killer of young children. Of the estimated 6.3 million deaths of children under the age of five in 2013, complications from preterm births accounted for nearly 1.1 million deaths, according to new findings published in The Lancet by a research team including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization and London Scho...