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Despite the large amount of money we spend on healthcare in this country, we're still not making the progress we should when it comes to our smallest citizens. While infant deaths in the United States fell 2 percent in 2006, the rate is still well above that of most other industrialized countries. More than 28,000 infants under the age of 1 die each year in the U.S., according to government researchers. Article
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