This is still confidential information. Aleff and Watson said they were not bitter about the tragedy that bound them. With limited resources but unlimited zeal, they are determined to change conditions in neonatal nurseries everywhere. But there is something we can do to prevent it from happening to other children. Changing the lighting or at least blocking the damaging light waves with filters would help.
Some doctors already agree.
But hospital administrators and many scientists are waiting for the outcome of the Light ROP study. We should have zero tolerance for premature infant blindness. Box 44792, Dept. Neonatologists have done spectacularly well at keeping premature babies alive. In the intensive-care nurseries, neonatalogists attempt to give a baby all nurturing it would have receive in the womb.