Premature Births
EDM number 105 in 2008-09, proposed by David Anderson on 04/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.
That this House recognises that every year around 50,000 babies are born prematurely in the UK; acknowledges that premature birth can lead to lifelong conditions as well as being a significant contributor to infant mortality; and urges all hon. Members to back the call by the charity Action Medical Research to the Department of Health and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills urgently to develop a 10-year national research strategy in order to understand the causes of premature birth and to stop unnecessary suffering.
This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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