Arkansas Students Learn To Build Dog Wheelchairs

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GPS for the Soul - The Huffington Post

Arkansas Students Learn To Build Dog Wheelchairs

The project began when teacher Georgia Summit's Chihuahua mix, Lila, started having trouble walking because of two slipped disks in her spine. The surgery to repair Lila's spine problem was $4,500 and came with an 80 percent chance of permanent paralysis, so Summitt began researching dog wheelchairs. As Summitt said to the Jonesboro Sun, "after you've had a sick pet and you have to pay the expenses, who can afford that?"







So, she took the issue to her students, seeing it as a chance for them to put mathematics into practical application.

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Novartis' meningitis B vaccine wins breakthrough therapy status in U.S.

Novartis said U.S. health regulators have granted the Swiss drugmaker's meningitis B vaccine Bexsero breakthrough therapy status. Bexsero is widely seen as crucial to Novartis' vaccines business, which has struggled to catch market leaders GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Merck. The business was the only one of Novartis' five divisions to report a full-year operating loss in 2013. The vaccine already has approval in Europe, Canada and Australia and has been administered at several universities in the United States to stop outbreaks of meningitis across campuses.

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