The Condom Cure! A Brooklyn Medical Student Designs Device To Save Women From Bleeding To Death During Childbirth

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A Brooklyn medical student may have found a way to save millions of women in poor countries from bleeding to death during childbirth. Mikail Kamal, 25, and his research team, discovered a blown up condom filled with saline water can put pressure on the uterus to reduce or stop bleeding until the woman is transferred to a hospital where doctors can use more sophisticated measures to cut off the potentially lethal hemorrhaging.

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