15 million babies across the world and 10% of babies born in the United States.For caregivers, a premature birth and the time spent in the hospital afterward can be exceedingly worrying and stressful.
But the care of premature babies has improved immensely in the last 50 years. In this Special Feature interview to mark Prematurity Awareness Month, Medical News Today spoke to Dr.
Mark Mercurio, a professor of pediatrics (neonatology) and the chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT.
Dr. Mercurio is also the director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and the director of the Yale Pediatrics Ethics Program.