BTB in the News
Team builds centrifuge for $30
05/04/2010 A group of college students has turned a salad spinner into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries could use to manually separate blood without electricity. They built it for about $30 - including the spinner using plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun.[full story]
Revolution with a salad spinner: Rice students' Sally Centrifuge could help diagnose anemia globally
05/03/2010 Lila Kerr and Lauren Theis will take their Sally Centrifuge abroad for testing this summer as part of Beyond Tradtional Borders, Rice's global health initiative that brings new ideas and technologies to underdeveloped countries. Kerr will take a spinner to Ecuador, Theis will take one to Swaziland and a third team will take one to Malawi.[full story]
Ob/Gyn Lab-in-a-Backpack
03/29/2010 Maternova highlights the BTB student-designed OB/GYN Lab-in-a-Backpack on their maternal and neonatal health innovation website.[full story]
Packed and deployed: Ecuador puts first big batch of Rice's Lab-in-a-Backpack to work
03/04/2010 Rice University's Diagnostic Lab-in-a-Backpack has been winning the hearts and minds of health care workers one at a time in some of the world's most remote places for a couple of years now. For the first time last week, the lab earned dozens of new disciples at once during a training session on February 25 in Quito, Ecuador.[full story]
Rice's Lab-in-a-Backpack goes to work in remote locales
02/17/2010 Rice sent 24 diagnostic labs to Ecuador in the last week of 2009. Training of health care workers in Quito is under way. Over the next 12 months, the backpacks will help provide care for an estimated 120,000 people.[full story]
Rice students design 'lab in a backpack'
01/25/2010 Rice U. students designed an all-in-one portable laboratory that fits into a backpack. The idea started 3 years ago, the objective being able to deliver mobile health care to some of the world's poorest countries. [full story]
Ecuador new training ground for Rice lab-in-a-backpack team
01/22/2010 Five representatives from Rice University’s Rice 360° initiative headed for Ecuador this week to begin training regional doctors on the use of lab-in-a-backpack diagnostic medical kits.[full story]
Lab-in-a-Backpack goes to work in Ecuador: Rice donates 24 diagnostic labs to treat patients in remote villages
01/13/2010 The ultra-portable diagnostic laboratory, designed by students in the university's Rice 360° : Institute for Global Health Technologies and Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) initiative, is ready to be deployed. The Lab-in-a-Backpack will give villagers in the remote jungles and mountains of the South American nation better and faster access to modern health care.[full story]
A Lab in a Backpack
11/11/2009 A Transitioning Technologies from Labs to LDCs Workshop attendee reflects upon the point-of-care technologies covered by speakers, the panel discussion on regulatory issues, Beyond Traditional Borders, and student global health technologies.[full story]
Life-saving technologies featured at Nov. 6 workshop: International experts to share health care design successes at Rice
10/29/2009 Lack of access to basic health care in the developing world is a global crisis. For example, it's estimated that 24 million children still don't have access to immunizations, that a simple diagnostic for tuberculosis could save 400,000 lives per year and that prevention of waterborne diseases could free up half of the world’s hospital beds.
To explore issues surrounding the design and dissemination of health technology in the developing world, Rice 360º: Institute for Global Health Technologies and Rice's Beyond Traditional Borders initiative are hosting "Transitioning Technologies from Labs to Least-Developed Countries" Nov. 6.[full story]
The Way I See It: Beyond Traditional Borders opened my eyes to the world
08/20/2009 BTB graduate, Sophie Kim, reflects upon how her BTB internship experience in Lesotho opened her eyes to the world. She was among the first class of seven BTB interns that traveled to sub-Saharan Africa two years ago.[full story]
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