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Laini Fluellen Charities And Know Your Lemons: Squeezing Out Breast Cancer And Winning The Fight, Kayla Vasilko
Laini Fluellen Charities And Know Your Lemons: Squeezing Out Breast Cancer And Winning The Fight, Kayla Vasilko
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
Each minute, a woman dies from breast cancer somewhere in the world. The first and most important tool a woman needs to have to win a fight against this disease is the education to identify breast cancer symptoms as early as possible. Laini Fluellen Charities, Inc. (LFC) is an organization dedicated to aiding women in the fight of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a highly aggressive form of breast cancer that characteristically affects young women, has fewer treatment options, and results in lower survival rates overall. Laini Fluellen combats TNBC by representing those most disproportionally affected: young African American and Hispanic …
Smart Health Monitoring System: A Human-Centered Design, Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, Jordy Timothy, Askar Zhapbassov, Tahmeed Rafee, Prim Boonwisut, Raymond Tanudaja
Smart Health Monitoring System: A Human-Centered Design, Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, Jordy Timothy, Askar Zhapbassov, Tahmeed Rafee, Prim Boonwisut, Raymond Tanudaja
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, Jordy Timothy, Askar Zhapbassov, Tahmeed Rafee, Prim Boonwisut, and Raymond Tanudjaja are fourth-year students in industrial engineering at Purdue University. They all share a common interest in the health care industry. In this article they describe how they developed a health monitoring device prototype within the course titled Work Analysis and Design II (IE 486).