About 70% of babies born alive between 22 and 26 weeks gestation in Sweden now survive past the age of one, largely thanks to medical intervention. But the authors say their study in the Journal of the American Medical Association does not answer the bigger ethical question over intervention. Over half of the babies that survived experienced serious health problems. BBC News
Editor: An even bigger ethical question is why JAMA doesn't talk about one of the significant causes of pre-term birth -- abortion? AAPLOG
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