Simple ‘sleep hormone’ skin patch could protect at-risk newborns

Dr James Aridas

A simple, cheap treatment of a skin patch containing a naturally occurring ‘sleep hormone’ could soon help to protect newborn babies from brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation at birth.


A recent study, led by PhD student Dr James Aridas and Associate Professor Suzanne Miller in The Ritchie Centre, is paving the way for a treatment that could transform the way babies starved of oxygen at birth are treated around the world.

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