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New blanket treats newborns with jaundice

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By ABC13
EAST LANSING, MI

The Michigan State University engineering students built a fiber-optic light blanket to treat newborns with jaundice. Sixty-percent of newborns experience some yellowing. Currently babies are put in an incubator or on a pad.

The light blanket lets parents hold the child during treatment time.

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