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.

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