The U.S. infant mortality rate has increased for the first time in more than 40 years, primarily because more women gave birth to tiny babies who didn't survive, a federal report said yesterday.
Early data for 2003 suggests that this trend may not be continuing, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Researchers, however, said more studies are needed to understand why so many more tiny babies are being born but not living long.
[Before this, the US ranked 41st, ahead of Taiwan and Croatia; and behind the Faroe Islands and Guam.]
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