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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“A Nigerian mom found out the hard way that jaundice is still a dangerous disease in Africa—but now she’s putting an end to the infant disease with her new tech startup, making solar-powered cribs.

After her traumatic experience with jaundice as a new mother, Virtue Oboro pivoted 180° in her professional life, in an effort to help prevent the terrifying situation from befalling other moms.

Oboro’s son, Tombra, was just 48 hours old when he had to be rushed to the NICU, suffering from a build-up of bilirubin, which causes yellow skin and can lead to permanent damage or even death.

The treatment is fairly simple... blue-light phototherapy.

Virtue’s hospital had no phototherapy devices, so Tombra had to receive a risky emergency blood transfusion. Her son would make a full recovery, but Virtue was changed by the experience.

“I felt like some of the things I experienced could have been avoided,” the visual designer told CNN. “I thought, is there something I could do to make the pain less for the babies and the mothers?”

What could a visual designer do? She designed the Crib A’Glow and named her new company Tiny Hearts.

The portable, deployable phototherapy unit is powered by the sun, and costs one-sixth the price of a normal phototherapy crib—and is manufactured in her homeland of Nigeria.

Virtue’s husband had some experience working with solar panels before, so he lent a hand to the visual designer, who was busy navigating the unknown waters of a new profession. She worked with a pediatrician through the design process to ensure all the details would benefit the tiny babies.

Two years ago, Crib A’Glow picked up a $50,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson through the Africa Innovation Challenge, and the Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. Already it has been used on 300,000 babies.

Virtue, who has also become a 2022 awardee for The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, says a further 200,000 babies were saved from jaundice by deploying the cribs to rural areas—no hospitals or electricity needed.” -via Good News Network, 3/9/22

#nigeria #nicu #jaundice #babies #child mortality #ghana #solar panels #phototherapy #medical news #healthcare #healthcare access #infant mortality #cw infant death

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indiedynamo · 2 months

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The slow passage of time

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#photo #nature photography #phototherapy #landscape #film #film photography #photooftheday

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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 month

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Mannequins demonstrate an ultraviolet ray group irradiation "merry-go-round" device during a preview at the Greater New York Safety Council's Annual Convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania, March 22, 1943. The apparatus, an adaptation a British invention, was used to promote employee health and reduce absenteeism in war plants. The platform, which was set to music, rotated 12 times per hour, held 10 workers at a time, and provided violet ray application for 100 employees per hour. UV radiation, or phototherapy, was used as a preventive and a cure before the introduction of antibiotics.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP

#vintage New York #1940s #Robert Kradin #Bob Kradin #UV radiation #World War II #home front #before antibiotics #March 22 #22 March #phototherapy #group irradiation

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richs-pics · 8 months

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Local woodland

#woods #woodland #fungus #bracket fungus #nature photography #nature #nature lovers #nature addict #photo walk #phototherapy #nature reserve #otley #yorkshire #gallows hill nature reserve #photographers on tumblr #original work #original content #original photograph #all my own work

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museemagazine · 1 year

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Our architectural photography pieces will leave you in a dreamy state of mind...come enter into Italy for a piece of heaven, featuring an exquisite night-time architectural powerplant landmark photo called 'Inside the Tower in Tuscany, Italy' by Italian photographer Fabio Sartori. -Writing and Photo Editing by our very own Photo Editor @ari.adams.photo Ari Adams, Musée Magazine Congratulations to Fabio for making it into THE ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2022 SHORTLIST! APA 2022 Interiors Shortlist: Inside the Tower, Geothermal Power Plant, in Monterotondo Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy by photographer Fabio Sartori. Now in its tenth year, the Architectural Photography Awards committee released its 2022 shortlist of photographs on October 31st. Highlighting four photographs in each of six categories, the images overwhelmingly emphasize the ultra-modernized world that we live in and are headed further towards. Consisting of a total of six categories, the first five categories—Exteriors, Interiors, Sense of Place, Buildings in Use, and Mobile—focus on bridges as an overarching theme as interpreted by the photographers. Meanwhile, the Portfolio category focuses on transportation hubs, featuring images that focus heavily on modernist airports and train stations in Turkey and China. All of the shortlisted images will be exhibited in Lisbon, Portugal at the World Architecture Festival from November 30th - December 2nd, after which the winners of this year’s awards will be announced.

#tuscany #italy #architecture #phototherapy #photography #art #modern #dreamy #powerplant #foggy day #perspective

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les-larmes-d-eros · 2 months

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Elodie, Audrey, Precilia, série Portraits d'Amazones, par Adeline Rapon

L'association Projet Amazones accompagne des femmes des Outre-Mer atteintes d'un cancer. Je tente d'aider certaines d'entre-elles à se ré-approprier leur corps à travers la photographie.

#Adeline Rapon #nude portrait #allure #intimité intérieure #cancer du sein #breast cancer #women photographers #female photographers #Femme photographe #phototherapy #Photothérapie

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marnanel · 14 days

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Artificial Sunlight and the Doctor

I found this picture in an old encyclopedia, describing what we'd now call phototherapy. But it really does look like a scene with the Ood from Doctor Who!

#doctor who #the ood #phototherapy

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parkchaeyoung4414 · 5 months

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Jennie for BeautyKurly

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thechronicpaingame · 10 months

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Went for my first phototherapy / light therapy today. Is this normal? 😅 I am very very fair, also on meds that make me more photosensitive, but we started right at the bottom (seconds!). I feel very dehydrated, very nauseous and just gross. Just really hoping this is redness that will subside and not actual burn. Altho my back feels BOILING.