The section of the hospital that provides care to ill or premature newborn infants.
What is a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)?
100
March of Dimes' largest fundraiser of the year.
What is the March for Babies?
100
An initiative that funds research into the causes of prematurity.
What is the Prematurity Research Initiative?
100
The first event our club is hosting this year.
What is Date in Disguise?
200
The year March of Dimes was founded
When is 1938?
200
The number of weeks a premature baby was born before.
What is 37 weeks?
200
The March of Dimes mission statement.
What is "The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality"?
200
The category of research that has discovered the genes that cause fragile X syndrome, clef lip and palate, and heart defects.
What is Birth Defects Research?
200
The year March of Dimes started the Prematurity Campaign.
What is 2003?
300
The original name of March of Dimes
What is National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
300
A disease when the bones in the spine don't form correctly, or when the spinal cord doesn't form correctly, leaving a gap or opening.
What is Spina bifida?
300
The month of Prematurity Awareness Month.
When is November?
300
The amount of money March of Dimes invested in research to defeat premature birth and birth defects.
What is $25 million?
300
The number of cents of every dollar that is raised that supports research and programs that help babies begin healthy lives.
What is 76 cents?
400
The original purpose of March of Dimes.
What is polio treatment and prevention?
400
A B vitamin than can help prevent birth defects of the brain and spine called neural tube defects.
What is Folic Acid?
400
The day of World Prematurity Day.
When is November 17th?
400
Research centers aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth.
What are transdiciplinary Prematurity Research Centers?
400
The percent of the causes of birth defects that are unknown.
What is 70%?
500
Stage, screen, and radio star that coined the name "March of Dimes"
Who is Eddie Cantor?
500
The unexplained death of a baby younger than 1 year old.
What is Sudden infant death syndrome?
500
A comprehensive initiative/campaign by the March of Dimes to prevent preventable preterm birth, with a focus on reducing elective deliveries before 39 weeks gestation.
What is Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait?
500
Research Awards that are funded in a program specifically designed to support scientists just embarking on their independent research careers.
What are the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards?
500
The radio and newsreel series that inspired the name "March of Dimes".