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Washington– Tired of using masks that fog up your glasses, irritate skin? Now you can design “the next generation of masks” that is low on cost, comfortable to wear and safe against Covid-19 pathogens, and also win $500,000.
The competition Mask Innovation Challenge has been announced by the US government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). It is open only for participants from the US.
While public health agencies worldwide are encouraging people to wear masks to curb the spread of infectious Covid-19, prolonged wearing increases issues such as skin allergy, physical discomfort and difficulty in communicating.
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Long exposure to coal dust can often bring on back lung disease, a life-altering and incurable affliction. In the past 10 years, more than 10,000 miners have died from the illness. TWV FILE PHOTO
CHARLESTON â Doctors hired by coal companies in black lung cases are far less likely to diagnose the disease in X-rays than are independent doctors or those who are hired by coal miners, a new study has concluded, pointing to conflicts of interest in the system that sick miners use to receive assistance.
The doctors who worked for coal companies to read the chest X-rays of miners found an absence of the disease nearly 85% of the time, according to the authors of the study, published Friday by the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Healthâs Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. In contrast, the doctors whose clients were coal
Oh, did I mention it also pays $500,000? Well, sorta.
It’s called the Mask Innovation Challenge: Building Tomorrow’s Mask, and is looking for designers and engineers to create a face mask that fits better, is more comfortable, and is more effective at filtering out air particles.
You don’t have a super long time to develop this new technology as the application period is open now and only stays open until April 21st. WOODTV says they’ll choose 10 winners in the first phase and those 10 will also be given $10k. Then phase two will award up to 5 winners who will split $400,000.
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Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, April 6 2021 (Wiredrelease) Report Ocean Pvt Ltd –:Growing emphasis on enacting occupational health and safety standards by government authorities leads to the rise in the adoption of safe healthcare solutions. The closed system drug transfer devices shield hazardous drugs or vapors during drug preparation and administration. It includes components that facilitate the filtering of dangerous vapors out of the system. Several factors lead to the growth of the closed system drug transfer devices market, including the growing adoption of chemotherapy and the improvement of regulatory guidelines concerning hazardous drugs.