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‘To treat or not to treat’ in the event of a widespread pandemic or disaster is a question that has always haunted health professionals.
Now a group of physicians think that they might have the answer on how to deal this this issue. A task force drawn from universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies […]
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DiabetesMine and Medgadget are co-hosting the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge…
“a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.”
This challenge is a follow on from the Open Letter to Steve Jobs that Amy Tenderich from DiabetesMine posted last year right after Apple […]
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Fighting cancer is no game. But thanks to HopeLab, there is a video game designed to help empower kids with cancer.
The video game is Re-Mission and it features an intrepid nanobot called Roxxi who journeys through cancer patients bodies, destroying the cancer cells, fighting the infections, and dealing with the side effects usually associated with different cancers […]
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A train, plane, or boat is really all most travelers want to catch. But if you’re not careful, you could end up catching a whole lot more in your travels.
Vagabondish has put together a list of the ‘10 Nastiest Travel Diseases: What They Are, What They Do and Why You Don’t Want Them’ to remind […]
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Most people don’t travel overseas to get pregnant. In fact, many young people live in fear of getting pregnant while having fun on their overseas adventures.
But for a growing number of people, the only reason they are even going overseas is to get pregnant.
They are on ‘IVF Vacations’, heading for fertility clinics in places like […]
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The ‘little blue pill’ turns 10 this month. In fact, it was on this day in 1998 that Viagra was approved for use in erectile dysfunction by the Food and Drug Administration, making it the first anti-impotence pill to be approved for use in the United States.
So to mark it’s birthday I thought I’d dig […]
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Phantom pain felt by amputees in their missing limbs is nothing new. This bizarre phenomenon has been around since at least the Civil War era. But as the U.S. marks its fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, we are finally seeing the emergence of a new and very unlikely source of phantom pain therapy: […]
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No Dying Allowed…
You’ve got to love this. There is no room in the cemetery so the Mayor of Sarpourenx, a small village in southwest France, has posted an ordinance in the council offices stating that “all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying […]
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If you think that Alzheimer’s is a disease that only attacks older people, then think again. It seems that you can get it at any age, even as a child.
I first learned about this last month when I read about Leah Garfitt, a six year old child who has Niemann-Pick Type C disease (NPC), a […]
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Okay, so it’s not something any of us ever thought we’d see in our life time.
Especially not in the United States.
But here they are - marijuana dispensing vending machines.
In California.
To be more specific, in Los Angeles.
To be exact, at a Herbal Nutrition Center in Los Angeles.
Not that you or I are ever going to be able […]
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