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Young Cancer Patients develop online-community, University Medical Centre facillitatesRadboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC) helps young people with cancer develop their own communities. RUNMC starts with the development of AYA4 (All information You've Asked For): a unique online community for and by young people with cancer. The University hospital facilitates the technique, support and innovation, but it is the patients themselves who determine the content of the community and start filling. They create themselves a digital place where young people with cancer and their families can meet, exchange essential information, ask questions and share knowledge and feeling. by: Lucien Engelen | Aug 12, 2010
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Singularity Weight Loss CentersCreate an international chain of weight loss centers based on the precepts of singularity. People may choose to adopt a healthy lifestyle as Kurzweil’s vision of singularity becomes mainstream. Singularity posits that if people live to 2050, they might live forever given the exponential expansion of science and medicine. This creates a paradigm shift that may motive people to resist temptation. When facing a firing squad, it is hard to resist the sensual pleasure of a candy bar. The potential prospect of living forever, though, trumps momentary pleasure. The centers may expand into: Diagnostics, Exercise, Restaurants, Grocery, Retail, Food/Supplements, Entertainment by: Bruce Polatnick | Jul 28, 2010
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Mental Evolution 2.0Mental illness affects over 1 billion people worldwide creating an economic burden of $2 trillion. Current drug treatments are expensive, suboptimal, and have significant side-effects. We have designed novel brain training software that targets fundamental cognitive deficits common to a majority of mental illnesses. This 'deep neuroscience' approach allows personalized treatment of an unprecedented range of conditions including learning, mood, anxiety, psychosis, and impulse-control disorders. The social network-embedded software we are developing is low cost, internet-based, has no side-effects and, in ongoing research, has already driven clinical improvements in children with autism and brain injury patients. by: David Delany | Aug 31, 2010
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Snot Spots!Immediate reagent tests for antibiotic resistance in any infection, required to be used on site, at prescription. Ever had a real sinus infection and gone through five rounds of antibiotics to clear it? The common practice is to prescribe the most common (least effective) drug first, and work up in Russian roulette style trial and error. The development of a simple swipe pad that looked for resistance markers would greatly reduce the use of the WRONG drugs, while lowering the spread of disease by treating effectively the First Time. Fewer sick days, fewer broad spectrum exposures, better cures! by: Lissa Probus | Aug 9, 2010
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Fighting senior loneliness with computersMales over the age of 75 have the heighest suicide rate of any group in the United States and it seems likely that loneliness is a factor in this. One of the major tools of connectivity, email and the internet, is still underused in this age group. Why not create an operating system specifically for these users. One that's simple, easy to learn and helps seniors to remain connected even if they live alone. by: Adam | Jun 25, 2010
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Standing TallSitting in an office all day is unhealthy. All offices should offer employees the option of adding a platform on their desks (roughly like a piano bench - about 3' long, adjustable height, and 15" deep, with four legs that roll on tracks at each end. When the individual wants to stand, he/she pulls the platform forward and raises his/her laptop computer and papers on platform. They do the reverse to sit. I used a small table on my desk, standing about 2 hours each morning and 2 each afternoon and felt much more energized (great during headset calls!). by: George Faulkner | Sep 1, 2010
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Bioactive NO meterNO (Nitric Oxide) is a radical gas and one of most important signaling molecules in the human body. Everything one does during ones life e.g., nutrition, physical activities, relaxation, entertainment, studies etc, is affecting NO availability. Thus NO measure reflects what is good or bad for us and what activities to adjust in order to achieve balance, health and longevity. An NO meter device (hand meter), which can measure bioactive NO levels through breath or blood vessel dilation, will enable the user to design wisely the quality of his life. by: Dina Ralt | Jul 31, 2010
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Emotional & Economic Freedom for Women in Africa.Women in developing countries often use banana leaves instead of sanitary pads. In Kenya, 300,000 girls miss up to 5 days of school a month because they are too embarrassed or uncomfortable to attend. Western brands are too expensive and an environmental disaster as they are not biodegradable. Makapads, invented by Professor Moses Musaazi of Makerere Univesity Uganda, are made from locally sourced sustainable papyrus and recycled paper by communities of women they serve. They are biodegradable and cost 70% less than western brands. Makapads provided emotional and economic freedom for the women and support environmental sustainability. by: Clive Pinder | Aug 18, 2010
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Crowdsourcing the Virtual BodyThe human body is a system of complex interacting systems, each of which can be understood in terms of biochemistry, genetics, or molecular biology. Specialists have deep but fragmented knowledge. Generalists understand high-level interactions among systems but miss the nuances. Therefore, obtaining a complete simulation of human physiology will require many experts across disciplines to contribute working knowledge. An online collaborative modeling tool would make it easy for experts across the world to contribute knowledge. The resultant "virtual body" would allows us to simulate disease and test new treatments quickly and without putting humans at risk. by: Pietro Michelucci | Aug 31, 2010
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EMET Method for DiabetesWhile we know much about diabetes, there are still unknowns. We believe it's important to take care of the nervous system on two levels, one diet and the other to change the electrical activity. I work with the EMET method, developed by the Center Raphael, which affects the impact of electric fields on the nervous system. I also provide foods that the body does not require insulin for removal. Free radicals in pancreatic cells disrupt the activity of pancreatic cells, creating large masses that arise due to electrical disconnect. It's a new way of observing diabetes. by: simona rahav | Jul 26, 2010
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