Insulin and Fluid Glasses By Maiya 6E

Fluid Glasses 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. The Problem

Fluid Glasses 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 they are currently $20, but Silver is planning to make them available for $1 each. Information

Fluid glasses Outcomes Advantages Disadvantages Lets people seeCheap Allows reading which can raise education level Unattractive

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.

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.

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

History of Fredrick Banting Frederick Banting was born on 14 November 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.