At-Risk Premature Infants The Focus Of $4 Million Nursing Grant
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has received a $4.1 million federal grant to develop ways to improve the early growth and development of premature infants who have two or more social-environmental risks such as poverty or minority status.”Approximately half a million premature infants are born each year in the United States,” said Rosemary White-Traut, head of maternal-child nursing at UIC and principal investigator of the five-year study.
