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This Jacket Can Diagnose Pneumonia in Two Minutes

It syncs with an app over Bluetooth, and in under two minutes indicates a child’s temperature, breathing rate and an assessment of how the lungs sound.
Brian Turyabagye and his team have developed a biomedical kit for early diagnosis and continuous monitoring of pneumonia patients.
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Olivia Koburongo’s grandmother was 86 when she died, but she should have lived longer. She spent the months preceding her death in June 2014 in various Ugandan hospitals as doctors tried to figure out what was causing her chest pains, shortness of breath and persistent dry cough. “In the end, they found

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