Aug. 16, 2005 — -- Federal statistics show regular seasonal patterns for births and deaths in the United States: Births tend to peak in August and September, just as deaths hit their nadir.

OBJECTIVE:To evaluate nursery survival of very low birth weight infants (VLBW) over time, born in the same large inner-city hospital with a predominantly Hispanic population. METHODS:All liveborn VLBW ...

Data for this analysis came from the 1985-1991 and 1995-1998 National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Sets. [14] The data sets consist of information on all live births ...

ATLANTA – More American women are having babies they didn’t want, a survey indicates, but federal researchers say they don’t know whether that means attitudes about abortion are changing. U.S. women ...