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World Service,14 Jan 1998,13 mins

A Patch That Could Save A Baby's Life

Health Matters

Available for over a year

Monitoring the temperature of babies; exercising breathing muscles; stress in the workplace. Newborn babies have difficulty maintaining their body heat, but one doctor has come up with a patch that can tell whether they are under stress. Also how to manage stress in the workplace and how to recognise if you are stressed and using exercises to help elderly people breath better.

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