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Every year 15 million babies are born prematurely in the United States. and the World Health Organization is giving the U.S. a failing grade when it comes to lowering that number. Dr. Philip Bayliss, from Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Women & Babies Hospital, discusses this trend in a May 3, 2012 interview featured on WGAL-TV News 8.