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Trying Tourette's device tested by Lewis Capaldi was the best day of my life (www.bbc.com)
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When Katie was just a child, her tics were so relentless they left her bedridden with a sore throat for two weeks.

The now 15-year-old says living with Tourette's affected her ability to sleep, eat, and caused her to miss school.

But a wrist device developed by researchers in Nottingham helped her calm down in an "instant".

Katie recalled trying it on for the first time, and said: "It was absolutely life-changing. It was like the best day of my life."

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[–] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

This was developed at the University of Nottingham, a public research university.

From the article:

The device was developed by the university and its spin-out company Neurotherapuetics Ltd, which secured £1m in additional funding to commercialise the device.

Isn't it always us tax payers footing the bill for development, then again to buy it? Ridiculous. If a university develops technology with government funding, its findings ought to be available to the public and its products sold at cost.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    The device was developed on MRC funding (universities don't fund research), but the MRC budget is so pathetic it is impossible to get clinical trial approval without commercialization.

    One day, voters will care about healthcare versus military budgets orders of magnitude bigger, but until then, this is the model.

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