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Premature babies in oxygen study could go blind or die
A large study of the effects of oxygen levels on extremely premature babies failed to inform the infants’ parents that the risks of participating could involve increased chances of blindness or death. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/health/parents-of-preemies-werent-told-of-risks-in-study.html?hp Babies assigned to a high-oxygen group were more likely to go blind and babies assigned to a low-oxygen group were more likely […]