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Insulin and Fluid G lasses

By Maiya 6E. Insulin and Fluid G lasses. Fluid Glasses. The Problem. Over a million people need glasses Glasses are too expensive for some people. There aren't enough eye doctors in poor countries to give glasses to all the people that need them. Fluid Glasses. Information.

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Insulin and Fluid G lasses

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  1. By Maiya 6E Insulin and Fluid Glasses

  2. Fluid Glasses The Problem • Over a million people need glasses • Glasses are too expensive for some people. There aren't enough eye doctors in poor countries to give glasses to all the people that need them.

  3. Fluid Glasses Information • British inventor, Josh Silver has invented a pair of glasses that can be adjusted instantly. If you turn the knob, it injects more fluid into the glasses, strengthening the glasses. Inject less fluid and the glasses are weaker. Silver is planning to distribute 1,000,000 fluid glasses in India by 2020. they are currently $20, but Silver is planning to make them available for $1 each.

  4. Fluid glasses Outcomes Advantages Lets people see Cheap Allows reading which can raise education level Unattractive Disadvantages

  5. Insulin The problem Before insulin was discovered, people with diabetes could only eat certain foods and could only do certain activates. People would also go blind and have to amputate limbs more often.

  6. Information • Fredrick Banting, a Canadian scientist was the first person to discover insulin. He did tests on dogs. Then he took insulin and tested it on patients in a hospital that were in comas. They all woke up. The drug firm Eli Lilly and Company had offered help not long after the first publications in 1921, and Banting took Lilly’s offer in April. In November, Lilly made a major breakthrough and were able to produce large quantities of insulin. Insulin was offered for sale shortly after.

  7. Advantages People can do more activities and can eat more foods Don’t go blind Don’t have to amputate limbs Have to monitor blood sugar levels Have to inject yourself every day Disadvantages

  8. History of Fredrick Banting • Frederick Banting was born on 14 November 1891. In 1916 he took his M.B. degree and at once joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps. • Banting became deeply interested in diabetes after reading an article in a medical paper on the pancreas • In 1941 a plane crash claimed his life.

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