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Engineering student Turner Montgomery discovers mom’s misdiagnosis, creates device to help

Case Western Reserve student studies medical records, discovers mom was misdiagnosed 20 years ago

WEWSTurner Montgomery, an undergraduate student studying biomedical engineering, researched the rare disease his mother was diagnosed with more than 20 years ago, only to find that she was misdiagnosed and instead has a type of muscular dystrophy. Montgomery then used Sears think[box] to create a device that has the potential to help his mother even further.