Tag: medical
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#MorningMonarchy: May 4, 2016
Portland pesticides, medical errors and unhealthy headlines + this day in history w/Haymarket affair and our song of the day by Japancakes on your Morning Monarchy for May 4, 2016.
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Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts
from www.nlm.nih.gov: In the field of materia medica and its applications, Islamic writers surpassed their earlier models, primarily because their broader geographic horizons brought them into contact with drugs unknown to earlier peoples, such as camphor, musk, sal ammoniac, and senna. In later Arabic works, medicinals were used that came from as far afield as…
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Avoid Doctors To Protect Your Health!
Or: If You Want To Get Sick, Go To The Hospital! from therealfoodchannel.com: Simple advice that will save you time, money – and maybe even your life. And the good news is that you don’t have to do anything to benefit.
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Electronic Sutures Check For Infections, Help Wounds Heal
from popsci.com.au: Stitches deserve a makeover. We’ve been using them in some form for thousands of years. So while they’ve stood the test of time, a researcher from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is wrestling surgical sutures into the future by creating “smart” electronic versions. They can monitor sutured sites for infection, and even…
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#DataDump: Macs, Hacks, Sachs and more
Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone: Text Message Spam, Difficult to Stop, Is a Growing Menace // Widespread Virus Proves Macs No Longer Safe From Hackers // FAA Grounds $75,000 Surveillance Drone Due to Crowded Skies // Bomb Sniffing Dog Humps Bomb Defusing Robot
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Insulin Pump Hack Delivers Fatal Dosage Over The Air
In a hack fitting of a James Bond movie, a security researcher has devised an attack that hijacks nearby insulin pumps so he can surreptitiously deliver fatal doses to diabetic patients who rely on them.
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9/1 defcon: unusual clouds & cattle mutilations
Milly Dowler phone hackers ‘used more than one voicemail’* Lawmakers Call for Probe of Medical Devices After Researcher Hacks Insulin Pump* UFO spotted over Mishawaka, IN* ‘UFO’ Over Chinese Airport Just an Unusual Cloud* New Mexico Cop Says Military Responsible for Cattle Mutilations* Big pharma discredited by Twitter drug-pushing: Official*
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New Surgical Robot Benefits Patients Through Tiny Incisions
A new surgical robot at University Hospital [in Columbia, Missouri] is benefiting patients in a small – but big way. The dual-console da Vinci surgical robot is used for minimally invasive surgeries such as general surgery, prostate surgery and other surgeries.
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Patients Under Satellite Surveillance
A rural southwest France Tibiran-Jaunac nursing home has operational satellite service able to monitor Alzheimer or “behavior disordered” patients by satellite feed.