Recent news on Poractant Alfa

Preterm Infants With RDS -- Surfactant Replacement Therapies ...  -  May 12, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),For both groups, death rates were nearly 20% lower for babies treated with poractant alfa than for those treated with either beractant or calfactant."

Lung Treatments For Premature Babies Assessed By Study  -  May 12, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Previous studies, comparing poractant alfa with calf-derived beractant, have yielded similar results; studies comparing beractant and calfactant,

Preterm infants with RDS - surfactant replacement therapies ...  -  May 7, 2007
SpiritIndia,Large multiyear, multihospital retrospective database analysis demonstrates RDS treatment with Curosurf (poractant alfa) Intratracheal Suspension provides

Wetting agent helps cut infant mortality  -  May 8, 2007
Earthtimes.org...causes in babies given the wetting agent poractant alfa, according to lead researcher Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

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