Pioneering treatment reduces disability in premature babies with serious brain hemorrhage
Monday, March 8, 2010 - 08:42
in Health & Medicine
The research, led by Andrew Whitelaw, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Bristol, and Ian Pople, paediatric neurosurgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust, has shown that, after a haemorrhage, the fluid inside the ventricles contains substances potentially toxic to the immature brain.