Health & Medicine

Cool Therapy Reduces Brain Injury and Death from Oxygen Loss in Newborns

Richard A. Ehrenkranz, M.D. Infants born with oxygen loss who are given an innovative therapy that lowers their entire body temperature by four degrees within the first six hours of life, have a better chance of survival and lower incidence of brain injury, according to a report in today’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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