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Empa creates illuminated pyjamas to treat newborns with jaundice

31/10/2017
Empa creates illuminated pyjamas to treat newborns with jaundice

Swiss research agency Empa has created a textile that could help treat newborns with jaundice, and which they say could replace treatment in an incubator. Empa's pyjamas emit light directly onto the baby's skin which means the “baby can get healthy while snug in its mother's arms”. Infant metabolisms are not resilient within the first few days...

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