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Jamie Heywood: A grande idéia que meu irmão inspirou

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Quando o irmão de Jamie Heywood foi diagnosticado com Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica -ALS, em ingles- ele devotou sua vida a combater a doença. Os irmãos Heywood construíram um engenhoso website onde as pessoas compartilham e acompanham dados sobre suas doenças -- e descobriram que os dados coletivos tinham um enorme poder para confortar, explicar e predizer.

When MIT-trained mechanical engineer Jamie Heywood discovered that his younger brother was diagnosed with the terminal illness ALS, he focused all his energy on founding revolutionary healthcare initiatives to help his brother and others like him. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Durval Castro
Reviewed by Denise Bem David
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