Steroid Drugs Pose Brain Risk for Premature Babies (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

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In this video, lead author Emily Tam talks about how low doses of commonly used steroid drugs put premature babies at risk for impaired brain development. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 19, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. Emily W.Y. Tam of the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif., and colleagues, was titled, "Preterm Cerebellar Growth Impairment After Postnatal Exposure to Glucocorticoids."

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