A partnership between Advance Queensland, UQ, Federal Government and the Paul Ramsay Foundation has enabled the development and delivery of a COVID vaccine to be brought forward by 6 months.https://lnkd.in/ggDcKQg
This medical device helps throat cancer patients, whose voice box is removed, get their voice back. Dr Vishal Rao and his team have developed this unique device.Most throat cancer patients who undergo laryngectomy are unable to speak after the surgery due to removal of voice box. Normally, these patients go for the western prosthesis, however, the most popular european prosthesis costs around INR 25k-30k , which many patients cannot afford. The Aum Voice Prosthesis is priced at INR 50 (popularly known as $1 device)Websitehttps://urlzs.com/dcou4https://urlzs.com/aSerp
Over the last several years, major advances in genomics–specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level–are improving our ability to target illness at each stage and improve the patient experience. As a result, we’re sometimes better able to predict which treatments could be most effective by taking into account patients’ genetic make-up, environment and lifestyle. Perhaps the best example of this approach is CART-19 (University of Pennsylvania) Websitehttp://tiny.cc/n1gplz
The real longer-term crisis is climate change.Ironically our response to a different crisis - the coronavirus pandemic - indicates that it is possible for us to change our ways, but only when there are governmental efforts to support behavioural change, which we have seen with coronavirus and need to see, now, with climate change. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-is-helping-improve-the-environment-across-the-world
