Pediatric medicine has allowed life expectancy to increase enormously in the last century. Today she faces new challenges.
I raised fourteen children, and only seven of them died,” wrote one woman in a 1912 letter to the Berlin administration. “Only” seven children she lost! That takes your breath away. It has been forgotten that at that time a woman in Germany gave birth to five children on average in the course of her life, and that every fourth child died in the first year of life. “That seems unbelievable to us today,” says Berthold Koletzko from the University Hospital…
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