Earlier methods for detecting newborn brain injury are desperately needed

According to a study from Canada, "survival of very premature infants has improved dramatically in recent decades; more than 85% of infants with birthweight between 500 g and 1500 g now survive the neonatal period [1,2]. Unfortunately, there has been no reduction in the rate of premature delivery during this time. On the contrary, recent data suggest that the proportion of very low birthweight (VLBW) infants (i.e., birthweight {{<=}}1500 g) increased gradually to approximately 1.45% during the 1990s [3] (i.e., more than 55,000 VLBW infants are born annually in the United States alone)."

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