Gasping premature babies are being deliberately oxygen starved without parental consent in a macabre on-going experiment called NeOProm, Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis. Several countries are involved in deliberately targeting premature infants with inadequately low oxygen support that leaves them gasping for air and at higher risk of death from asphyxiation. Parents who have enrolled their babies in these experiments have been denied sufficient information to give informed consent. The babies assigned to the lower oxygen group had a 27% higher risk of death than those in the higher level groups, so, for some, being randomly assigned to that group was a death sentence. Here's a timeline of the experiment from the
Medical Observer:
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