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Cynthia Washam, Health News Florida

Cutting C-Sections Helped Babies

By Cynthia Washam, Health News Florida June 15, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Florida hospital administrators for years have said the state’s high rate of preterm births — and the infant health problems that result — are beyond their control. But that’s not true, as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has proved.

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