Catherine Wong, from Morristown, New Jersey, invented a cellphone that offers cardiac care to patients in developing countries when she was 17 years old.
The invention also operates as a portable electrocardiogram machine, and is able to measure a user’s heart activity and then in real-time, using Bluetooth wireless signals, and then transmit that information to a doctor located anywhere in the world.
Catherine came up with the idea, and built a workable prototype out of basic cellphone materials anyone could purchase at Radio Shack.

The app, known as MemCare, works by keeping track of the movements and whereabouts of a person with Alzheimer's. That person wears a bracelet that allows one, with the app, to learn when the wearer is stationary for too long, or has wandered into a place that is not safe.

"I came up with the idea two years ago in a class," Dawson said. The class was entrepreneurship and the instructor, one Dawson said has been of great help to him in his growth as a student, was Vince Palumbo.

Arthur Zang, a Cameroonian engineer, has invented the Cardiopad when he was 24. The cardiopad is a touch screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) to be performed at remote, rural locations while the results of the test are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them. The device spares African patients living in remote areas the trouble of having to travel to urban centers to seek medical examinations. The software built into the device allows the doctor to give computer assisted diagnosis.

He described the "eureka moment" which led to him creating the spoon: "I actually remember the day, I was about to get out of my bed and have my breakfast when I thought I need a spoon with a lid on it.

"Eating is a fundamental part of life, you can't survive without eating", Douglas said.

Then Douglas teamed up with Mark Penver, a graduate intern at 4c Design, and they hit upon the idea of designing a spoon that would reduce spillage for those with uncontrollable arm movements.

Sheri Denkensohn and her husband Tony Trott created "Happy on Wheels", an entrepreneurial business initiative focused on helping wheelchair users, and all individuals, to live happier lives. Sheri is the writer and speaker, while Tony serves as editor, web designer and social media guru.
Sheri, 47, of Arlington, Va., was 16 years old when her injuries in a diving accident resulted in quadriplegia. Tony, has Friedreich’s ataxia, a progressive, neurological disorder that affects his balance and muscle coordination.

Jack Trew, a design student at Birmingham City University in the UK, may have a solution for diagnosing nutritional blood disorders such as anemia, at least when it comes to centrifuging blood in rural areas of the developing world, because it relies on one of the most common machines to be found there, the bicycle.

"It happened very rapidly and I was suddenly undergoing lots of testing and was told I needed journals to write down everything that happened and different moisturisers and soaps for the treatments", Ms Whitehurst told Daily Mail Australia. 'I was so busy being in hospital that there was no time to get all those things.

After participating in Ms. Wheelchair Kentucky 2012, McKenzie realized she was not the only woman experiencing difficulty finding fashionable yet adaptable clothing that fits a seated body.

That's when she teamed up with designer Kristin Alexandra Tidwell to create a comfortable, functional pair of jeans suitable for people in wheelchairs.

"When it comes to fashion for people with disabilities, the designs typically center on functionality, and are mostly targeted toward the “elderly,” McKenzie said.

Made up of balloon-like shades of colorful plastic in the three primary colors, Eatwell almost looks like a Playskool dinner set. But Eatwell isn't designed for children—it's scaled for adult hands—and the colors weren't chosen to be playful. Yao says that she chose her shades of red, yellow, and blue because of a study conducted by researchers at Boston University who discovered that individuals with cognitive impairment consumed 24% more food and 84% more liquid when they were served in brightly colored vessels.

For five years after his spinal cord injury, the CSU graduate had been using an antenna-propelled manual wheelchair, before he switched to a power chair. That's when he came up with his idea. “While I was attending CSU I realized ‘Oh man, why do I have somebody pushing me around? I would rather jump into one of these powered chairs so I can do everything on my own,’” said Morris. “And that’s when I made the realization of ‘Hey, why does my powered chair have suspension and not my manual chair?’ The quality of ride is so much nicer when a chair has suspension.”

“She told me that all existing devices only let users see in one direction so they can’t know what’s going on around them,” said, after seeing the lady only had a cane and guide dog – two things that are hard to come by – with her.

The device is called iAid, uses GPS and ultrasonic technology to help visually-impaired people get around safely. It works outside, using Bluetooth, Google Maps and geocoding. It's also integrated with Android smartphones.

It all started thanks to a friend's sister, who already had undergone extensive chemotherapy, who told Kunzelman what to bring to pass the hours. “Treatment days are long, boring and stressful,” said Kunzelman, an executive at Fat Wallet who needed the chemotherapy after an operation for uterine cancer in 2009. “By my second treatment, I realized how lucky I was to have had such good advice, and I was contacting a lawyer about setting up what became ChemoCargo.”

That's when, in 2012, this inventor came up with a new solution for managing the medical drains, which are typically attached to hospital gowns or clothing with safety pins. Instead, Dolphin used a small apron, tied around her waist, to carry the tubes and drain.
And this is how the Kili Medical Drain Carrier was created. It's a safe and comfortable lightweight mesh apron that can be tied around the waist or around the shoulder.

The story Frimer tells in Nistar pulls scenes from her own life. Only a couple of months after she and her childhood sweetheart, Yaakov, became engaged, Yaakov was diagnosed when he was 19 with Ewing’s sarcoma, a pediatric bone cancer. Two years later, the couple had twins. Frimer's husband, however, died when he was 24.
“Children affected by cancer are forced to contend with a noxious villain. They need relief from the emotional distress that comes with illness,” the artist tells ISRAEL21c in an interview in her Rehovot clinic.

Joseph Anand, 15, used his robotics knowledge to make life a little easier for returning veterans. It all started when Joseph was in ninth grade and read news reports about injured veterans returning from Afghanistan, and then he met some in person.
The Ohio teenager created a motorized pulley system that can be calibrated by a physical therapist to help soldiers exercise. It took a year for this boy to build this device, in his house.