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He hopes that there will be more research about what ventilator settings might lead to the best outcomes for preemies.

The child has since been transported to a neonatal intensive care unit in Albany, where he’s been able to receive preemie care much closer to home.

You may have heard the term "preemie" before, perhaps when a loved one delivered a baby more than three weeks before the expected due date.

Some of their observations, shared before peer review but since formally published, were striking: Across Denmark, for instance, numbers of the smallest preemies were down by 90 percent.

Not giving enough oxygen could be dire for preemies with undeveloped lungs.