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Smart-e-Pants - Innovative Canadian-made electrified undergarments protect against bedsores
Canadian scientists have come up with a new way to stave off the misery of bedsores. People with paralysis have tested underpants which deliver small electrical currents. The Link’s Lynn Desjardins has spoken with someone who helped develop the electric underpants and with someone who has tried them.
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