New low cost, non-electric warmer effectively treats infant hypothermia – News-Medical.net

Neonatal hypothermia — which occurs when an infant’s core body temperature falls below the normal range needed to maintain health — contributes to approximately one million deaths each year, and countless cases of stunted growth, almost exclusively in low- and middle-income countries.
To address this common but preventable condition, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and colleagues in Rwanda developed the Dream Warmer, a low cost,…

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