Mr Blair told the BBC last week social intervention could happen "pre-birth".

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It sometimes took "many months" to obtain a parental order, he complained, calling for the UK to adopt a system of rules in place in some US states, where pre-birth orders are available.

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It also has a prenatal test to assess the risk of a pre-term birth.

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Second, by scaling up cost-effective solutions to the five most important causes of deaths for children under the age of five: pneumonia, pre-term birth complications, diarrhea, intra-partum-related events and malaria.

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The biggest winner in biotech last month was KV Pharmaceuticals, a heretofore unknown drug maker whose new drug to treat pre-term birth was approved but the Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 4.

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Sophie Leung, who teaches pediatrics at Hong Kong's Chinese University, has been studying a group of children from birth through pre-adolescence.

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Reagan, whose life spanned from the pre-Federal Reserve world at the time of his birth to the era of computer-driven financial innovation during his presidency, appreciated how difficult it was to achieve lasting monetary stability because he had seen the ups and downs of most of the twentieth century.

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He noted that in rural areas where such beliefs are more common, women often give birth without ever seeing a midwife, let alone having a pre-natal scan.

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