Undaunted, CHF's Erb hopes to begin selling machines to outpatient clinics, though another skeptic, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein at CliniLabs in New York, says that rollout is "premature, " preferring its use be kept at hospitals.

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In developed economies this is a known problem with a known solution: we use incubators to warm premature infants until they are self-sufficient.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates tobacco use results in 443, 000 premature deaths and another 8.6 million serious illnesses in the country each year.

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But other Democrats, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden, D-Delaware, said it was premature for the president to ask Congress for permission to use military action.

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These include hospitals that use Big Data to monitor the health of premature babies in neonatal care wards and agencies that reduce crime by analyzing Big Data to stop suspected criminals, and in some cases, prevent crime.

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