In a major advancement for maternal and child health in the Free State, the University of the Free State (UFS) and Universitas Academic Hospital, in collaboration with the Free State Department of Health, have launched a state-of-the-art Research Room dedicated to assessing and improving newborn health outcomes. At the heart of this initiative is the COSMED PEA POD® Infant Body Composition...

The COSMED PEA POD is being used to measure the body composition of infants, potentially leading to longer and healthier lives at Western Kentucky University. Amy Bingham reports on WKU’s collaboration with the Medical Center in "View from the Hill". The PEA POD is an Air Displacement Plethysmography (ADP) system using whole body densitometry to determine body composition (fat and fat-free...