Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives

http://www.ted.com In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm -- a design that's safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.

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[mikontisott]

Jane Chen what a beautiful and brilliant person you are. Thank you!

[funnyguise]

Just because you have an asian fetish that you've jaded by watching too much internet porn doesn't mean you should take it out on TED

[crudhousefull]

@SuperFinGuy I'm not sure environmentalism is the new religion. Look at the veneration in the eyes of the TED speakers when they speak of Darwin and the 'on the origin of species'. How many TED speakers mentioned this or started with this? Sort of like the radical muslims when they start with 'if God pleases'

[3877michael]

Natural selection is a bitch.

[givebirthathome]

"Kangaroo care" was also invented in 1978, in South America. Rather than a tiny sleeping bag, with phase-change wax to maintain body temperature, the baby, naked except for a diaper, is bound between the mother's breasts, so her body temperature maintains the baby's.

[samsold100]

jjanechen (dot) com

[mellifluousnebula]

bummer dude

[dilipjoym]

@LPN00b No need to be ashamed of. One should always be open to consider and debate new ideas irrespective of one's age. Life should be a process of continuous learning. But, that calls for lot of humility !

[LPN00b]

@dilipjoym Mengsk here, with a new username, It's been only a year since my comment and after re-reading it now, I'm ashamed to have said it. You are right, I learned this the last year. What a fool I was!

[dilipjoym]

@ArcturosMengsk Research shows that , reducing infant mortality rate persuades couples to produce only fewer children ( which implies lesser fertility rate ) which leads to population reduction or atleast reduction of population growth rate. So, reducing the infant mortality rate is extremely important for reducing population. What i have said above is counter-intuitive...but, it is the truth.

[sanrezende]

In Brazil we have a similar concept, using the human body heat to save the lives of premature babies. We keep the baby in contact with the mother's body with a piece of fabric. These mothers are called kangaroo moms. It also helps mothers to restore the link with their babies, which was stopped too soon.

[ArcturosMengsk]

Humans are swrewing up the planet. Do we really need millions more? We need to fix the planet and our way of thining, before we multiply even more.