The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
and um and a red reflex is actually very normal that's that that's great and if you have a one of a number of diseases in the eye that can present even in babies even in newborn babies including most concerning but thankfully least Comm retinoblastoma which is the most common pediatric eye cancer uh which again thankfully is quite rare uh those babies won't have a red reflex in that eye it'll be kind of a whitish or gray reflex
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every baby gets an eye exam or should be getting an eye exam and uh one of the main things that you really just are screening for right when that baby is born right in the nursery right in those first few days is to just look for a red reflex