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Also I think I still got some good wine and chips for Friday evening. 😎

Screenshot from Steam Software on PC showing the soon to be releasted game "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" being preloaded to the PC.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g

At the age of 23 Marc Koska came up with an invention credited with saving millions of lives.

Forty years later, he thinks can do it all over again.

The single use auto-disable syringe, designed by Mr Koska in 1987,
played a major role in limiting the spread of HIV and other diseases in the decades that followed
by dramatically reducing the re-use of dirty needles.

Mr Koska’s design, and others like it, were backed by the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the UNFPA at the turn of the millennium.
Since then, he claims, millions of people around the world have been saved from dying as a result of blood borne infections.

More recently, one in five of all the syringes used in the Covid-19 vaccination campaigns around the world were Mr Koska’s design.

Now, he is working on a new, even more ambitious innovation.
If it works, he believes that it will go a long way to solving the issue of a chronic lack of access to health care in many parts of the developing world.
The Telegraph visited him in his south London offices, #Apilabs, where he explained the next issue he is tackling.

The #problem in large swathes around the globe, says Mr Koska, 🔸isn’t that there are not enough drugs,
♦️but not enough medics to administer them.

“We need to get over this doctor and nurse interaction, because it has killed a lot of people;
we need to get to the point where people can say ‘all right, I can do this myself,’” he tells The Telegraph.

Mr Koska says the inspiration for his latest invention came to him as a bee flew past his head in the garden.

“That’s how to do it,” he said.

“Why don’t we give injections like a bee? They carry around a measured dose, they’ve got a stinger, they’ve got everything built in.”

The new syringe is called Apiject
(Api being Latin for ‘bee’),
and like the previous one is single use and can be used for any injectable medicine.

However, he has designed a revolutionary new way of #preloading these self-injecting syringes with the medication required,
so that they can be more effectively mass produced.

“You can take this home because it’s pre filled,” says Mr Koska,
holding a row of single Blow-Fill-Seal containers,
also used for eye drops.

Self-injectable syringes are already common for products including blood thinners, weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, and other injections which patients have to take daily.

However, they are not easy to produce
meaning they are only economically viable in the west and even then, only for a limited number of injectable products.

Where Mr Koska believes he has made a breakthrough is in the manufacturing process,
patenting a mechanism for safely attaching needles to the soft plastic vials used in a mechanism called Blow Fill Seal (BFS).

The process, he says, will help make disposable self-injecting syringes available to people all around the world
and for the vast majority of medicines,
while also reducing the potential for product exposure and contamination
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/british-inventor-marc-koska-needle-saved-millions-hiv/

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