Medicine has managed to make more and more premature babies survive and to reduce some of the most serious sequelae associated with being born earlier. However, these advances have not been accompanied by a similar development of new drugs specifically designed for newborns. "We have the same four things we had in 1984," laments Dr. Carmen Pallás, head of Neonatology at Hospital 12 de Octubre de Madrid, who reports that many of these patients co…
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Medicine has managed to make more and more premature babies survive and to reduce some of the most serious sequelae associated with being born earlier. However, these advances have not been accompanied by a similar development of new drugs specifically designed for newborns. "We have the same four things we had in 1984," laments Dr. Carmen Pallás, head of Neonatology at Hospital 12 de Octubre de Madrid, who reports that many of these patients co…