The Pillbox that Gets Personal
13.私人化药盒
“I grew up in a family that owned and operated a pharmacy,” says T.J. Parker, who knows firsthand how confusing it can be for people to track which meds to take when, especially if they fill multiple prescriptions. That’s why the e-pharmacy he runs now, PillPack, doesn’t traffic in bottles. Instead, every two weeks, patients are sent a dispenser, which has their medication—all of it—sorted into a ticker tape of tearable packets, organized by date and time.
“我家开有一间药店,我在那里长大。”帕克说他非常了解人们在买药、吃药时的那种困惑,尤其是当人们手里有好几种药方的时候。所以帕克开了一家电子药店—电子药盒。与传统的瓶装药不同,每隔两周病人们会从电子药店收到一个包含所需药物的分配器,里面装着按日期分类的塑料药包。
Bananas that Prevent Blindness
14.富含维A的超级香蕉
In sub-Saharan Africa, up to 30% of kids under age 5 are at risk of going blind—among other conditions—for one simple reason: they don’t get enough eye-nurturing vitamin A. But what if the bananas that make up a lot of their diet could be re-engineered to deliver it? That’s the idea that struck Australian biogeneticist James Dale when he visited Uganda in the early 2000s. With backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dale and his team began developing a vitamin-A-enriched “superbanana”; human trials start soon in the U.S. “These bananas could potentially solve” a major health problem, Dale says.
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