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The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to provide an overview of the current status of the identification, treatment, and prognosis of low birth weight babies, including current trends in survivability, in the U.S. population under age 1, as well as common treatments, short and long term functional outcomes of low birth weight, and other considerations.
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