An important test case, the trial brought to public attention the dilemmas for doctors in treating severely disabled newborn babies.
Trabeculectomy is not the first surgery used for treating babies who have congenital glaucoma.
They are treating critically ill babies at a city hospital ward that specializes in rural family problems.
Such early intervention can be critical in treating babies with heart problems.
In Austria, the law treats babies found in baby hatches as foundlings.
The law treats babies found in baby boxes as foundling.
The ambitious plans to treat new babies of virus-carrying mothers raises difficult ethical questions.
Therefore, it is important to treat babies born blind soon if their condition is treatable.
One study showed that a third of neonatologists were treating babies they believed had nothing to gain.