Low-cost 'cooling cure' would avert brain damage in oxygen-starved babies
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
When babies are deprived of oxygen before birth, brain damage can occur. Preventive treatment is not always available in developing nations. Students have invented a low-tech $40 unit to provide protective cooling in the absence of modern hospital equipment that can cost $12,000.