[3] Baxter was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky and displayed an interest in medicine and science from an early age.
[7] Baxter's transition into entrepreneurship was driven by a personal experience with her son's extreme needle phobia.
[2] Baxter invented Buzzy, which combines two kinds of pain therapy: cold temperature and vibrational frequencies.
[8] It operates on a theory called gate control; researchers in the 1960s speculated that some kinds of sensory stimulation could interrupt pain signals traveling up the spinal cord before they reach the brain.
[8] Baxter acquired a research grant from the NIH to properly test her device and document the results.