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Teenage Quadruplets Make History With Admission Into Mensa

Most teenage siblings tend to share clothes and maybe even a family car, but one set of quadruplets from Wylie, Texas, shares something much greater: serious smarts. The Crowley quadruplets -- Moria, Alanna, Thomas and Patrick -- are 17-year-old juniors at Lovejoy High School who just happen to be extremely bright and...

Diet Soda Guzzlers More Likely to Pop Out Preemies

(July 23) -- The more diet soda women drink while pregnant, the more likely they are to deliver a premature baby. A study of 60,000 Danish women, published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is spurring renewed interest in the potential for long-term repercussions to a diet loaded with artificial...

Background on premature babies

In humans preterm birth ( or ) refers to the birth of a baby of less than 37 weeks gestational age. The cause for preterm birth is in many situations elusive and unknown; many factors appear to be associated with the development of preterm birth, making the reduction of preterm birth a challenging proposition.

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