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Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.

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Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.

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The Taylors shared their baby story, now go tell yours by visiting www.marchofdimes.com/everybaby

Following the premature birth of his son Zeek, Corey Taylor spent frightening days watching both his wife and their tiny baby fight for their lives. Betty had developed complications 26 weeks into her pregnancy. In danger of heart failure and coma, she had an emergency c-section. Zeek was born weighing just 1 pound 14 ounces and spent the first 103 days of his life in neonatal intenstive care. He was given surfactant therapy to help his immature lungs inflate and went on to fight (and win) countless medical battles. Today, Zeek is an artistic 8 year old who loves music, cooking, making greeting cards, and performing with a drum line. As the 2007 National Ambassador, Zeek and his family will travel the country to share their story, raising awareness of the seriousness of premature birth.

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The Respiratory Health ociation’s second annual Hike for Lung Health was MC’d by WLS News Anchor Ravi Baichwal, whose own father had ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) and later succumbed to pulmonary fibrosis. Here are his opening statements.

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ARDS Foundation joined the Respiratory Health ociation and many other lung organizations in Chicago for their second annual Hike for Lung Health. The event helped to raise awareness and funds for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) a syndrome that almost 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with and almost half of them do not survive.

For more information about ARDS, please visit ArdsUSA.org

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Andriy Maksymovych, one of the organizers of the charity Race for Children project, talks about his experiences running across Ukraine from east to west to benefit maternity wards and raise awareness of social and corporate responsibility.

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Set in the Newborn Center, a 100 bed NICU in Memphis, TN, this video documents, in graphic and poignant detail, the birth of four premature babies and their subsequent treatment and struggle for life. Shocking, compelling, and heartwarming, it paints a vivid picture of the hazards of premature birth.

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To be sure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a very serious issue, but we still had a lot of fun working on this amazing video project that we hope will help to raise awareness, education, and inform. And as soon as the finished project is complete, we will post that!

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