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• As any other autoimmune disease, the symptoms depend highly on the attacks to our immune system

  Forum topic Shared by telisnovoa on 2014-02-11 14:40

  

  As any other autoimmune disease, the symptoms depend highly on the attacks to our immune system- and what we eat might be doing just that. Taking a reliable (!) food intolerance test and adapting your diet accordingly (no matter how restrictive it could ...

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• Father creates data system to help prevent student suicides after his son died

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-08-27 15:45

  

  Ben had been kicked out of his university when he was 19. That meant that he would have no place to stay. However, the family wasn’t aware of Ben’s stress. Not only Ben kept this secret, but also Bristol University, where the boy studied, didn’t pick ...

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• Disabled student designs accessibility map

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-06-24 09:00

  

  Despite most large universities claim they are fully wheelchair accessible, a lot of disabled students wouldn’t agree. This drove Nick to build CAMP, an interactive campus map which rates all pedestrian pathways on their level of accessibility. This ...

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• Man suffering from shoulder pain invents device to cope with pain

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2018-05-18 10:45

  

  The brace aims to offer gentle traction so it can keep from pinching off blood flow to the rotator cuff area while laying down. Michael was suffering from shoulder pain, which was limiting his movements. He was also having trouble sleeping. He did ...

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• Teenager develops tech to help himself and other disabled patients

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-11-21 15:48

  

  “When Hải was four years old, he was walking one day, and he fell and could not stand up,” Phan Thị Huỳnh Mai, Hải’s mother, explained. He was infected with polio. Because of his condition, Hải is only one metre tall and weighs 30kg. He relies on his ...

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• Mother converts breast pumps into emergency ventilators

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:12

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were facing severe shortages of ventilators necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. Knowing about this problem, Brandi Gerstner, an engineer at the University of Maryland, wondered if ...

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• Use the dryer to replace the bath towel

  Solution Shared by Maria do Céu Ramalhete on 2014-05-07 18:26

  

  Some of the challenges I had to deal with was that it was impossible to dry it after the shower grabbing her and rubbing the towel like a baby. To solve this I adopted the system to wrap a towel and gently dry with a hair dryer the most difficult parts...

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• Diabetic woman creates artificial pancreas

  Forum topic Shared by JoanaSaraiva on 2019-09-01 20:55

  

  Type 1 diabetes is caused when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin. Insulin is what helps the body turn glucose from sugar into energy. Without insulin, sugar builds up in the blood stream. With too much insulin, sugar can fall to dangerously low ...

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• Home solutions for disabled people

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-12-11 15:20

  

  Here are some of Peter’s solutions: A system was develop in order for Peter’s bathroom door to open automatically for him when he approaches it and the lights turn on without him having to flick a switch. “What I did was I used an ultra sound PIR. I ...

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• Quadriplegic creates drum technology

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-05-15 10:25

  

  Jason became a C6/C7 incomplete quadriplegic in 1994, after a car accident, when he was driving home. "[The doctors] said 'you're probably never going to walk and probably never going to play the drums again. It was like a nuclear bomb was ...

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