Research: Premature babies sometimes get too much treatment

Researchers from the University of Texas Medical School found babies weighing less than 2 pounds were slightly more likely to die if they were given early light therapy for rising levels of bilirubin causing jaundice.

A second study from Britain's University of Cambridge finds early insulin therapy offers little clinical benefit in very low-birth weight infants, putting them at risk of dangerous low blood-sugar.

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