Common Treatment To Delay Labor Decreases Pre-term Infants' Risk For Cerebral Palsy

Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

Pre-term infants born to mothers receiving intravenous magnesium sulfate -- a common treatment to delay labor -- are less likely to develop cerebral palsy than are pre-term infants whose mothers do not receive it, report researchers in a large National Institutes of Health research network.

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