Unlike some other bureaucratic organisations, Col Choy says his superiors supported his idea. Instead the problem was a lack of resources and having to do the work while holding down his day job.
He collaborated with a sympathetic external app developer who had also been in the army and who understood Col Choy's motivation for creating the app.
More Technology of Business. But I worked on the UX [user experience] design. As it was something he wanted to do, he says: "I enjoyed it, I didn't see it as work.
A prototype of Soldier App features soldiers' individual training goals and lists the best performers in certain activities, such as best shooter and fastest runner. These are early days - the app has been piloted amongst people in his unit so far - but the feedback has been good, says Col Choy.
But whether you go for private or public funding, finding the right development partner is key. And as Col Choy says, "you have to be prepared to fight to make it happen", because you won't always get support from your bosses.
Image source, Jagdish Chaturvedi. Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi combines his career with medical innovation - and stand-up comedy. Image source, Getty Images. Dr Chaturvedi has co-invented medical devices to help address inefficiencies in Indian healthcare.
Dr Chaturvedi has also launched a platform to connect Indian doctors with the innovation industry. Getting the message across. Image source, Amy Mace. This action resolved the epidemic, and the silk industry recovered.
Pasteur was sure that pathogens attack the body from the outside. This was the germ theory of disease. However, many scientists could not believe that microscopic beings could harm and even kill people and other comparatively large species. Pasteur said that many diseases, including tuberculosis TB , cholera, anthrax , and smallpox, happen when germs enter the body from the environment.
He believed that vaccines could prevent such diseases and went on to develop a vaccine for rabies. Florence Nightingale — was a British nurse, statistician, and writer. She did pioneering nursing work while caring for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.
Nightingale was from a well-connected family. At first, they did not approve of her studying nursing. However, her parents eventually agreed that she could take a 3-month nursing course in Germany in The Crimean War broke out in Sidney Herbert, the Minister for War, asked Nightingale to lead a team of nurses in the military hospitals in Turkey.
She arrived in Scutari, Turkey in with 34 nurses whom she had trained. Nightingale was shocked by what she saw. Exhausted medical staff members were tending to wounded soldiers in unbearable pain, many of whom were dying unnecessarily, while the officials in charge remained indifferent. A lack of medication and poor hygiene standards led to mass infection. Nightingale and her team worked tirelessly to improve hygiene and provide patient services, including cooking facilities and a laundry.
Under her influence, the fatality rate fell by two-thirds. In , Nightingale founded a training school for nurses in London. Nurses who trained there went on to work all over the United Kingdom.
They took with them everything that they had learned about sanitation and hygiene, proper hospital planning, and the best ways to achieve health.
Childbed fever was fatal in 25 to 30 percent of sporadic cases and 70 to 80 percent of epidemic cases. She promoted the education of women in medicine. He demonstrated its effectiveness to the public using 50 sheep. All 25 of the unvaccinated sheep died, but only one vaccinated sheep perished, probably from an unrelated cause. He later received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It was a synthetic version of salicin, which they derived from the plant species Filipendula ulmaria meadowsweet.
Within 2 years, it became a global commercial success. His lab also discovered arsphenamine Salvarsan , the first effective treatment for syphilis. These discoveries were the start of chemotherapy. This discovery changed the course of history, saving millions of lives. He later pioneered artificial organs. Gilman and Louis S. Goodman discovered the first effective cancer chemotherapy drug, nitrogen mustard, after noticing that soldiers had abnormally low levels of white blood cells following exposure to nitrogen mustard.
With Harold Harrison, he created the first electrolyte-glucose solution for clinical use. John Heysham Gibbon, an American surgeon, invented the heart-lung machine. He also performed the first ever open-heart surgery, repairing an atrial septal defect, also known as a hole in the heart.
He also developed the first inkjet ECG printer. Black, a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist, invented the first beta-blocker after investigating how adrenaline affects the functioning of the human heart. The drug, Propranolol, is a treatment for heart disease. Black also developed cimetidine, a treatment for stomach ulcers. Health technology.
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