Archive for the ‘health’ category: Page 279
Nov 26, 2018
Dangerous Infection Tied To Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
C. Diff Infections Crop Up Outside Hospitals And Nursing Homes : Shots — Health News Infections with Clostridium difficile can be difficult to treat and life-threatening. Once a problem seen mainly in health care facilities, the infections are now occurring often in the community.
Nov 25, 2018
How high-tech toilets could soon be tracking your every movement
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health, mobile phones
The bathroom is arguably the last bastion of privacy, but soon a new high-tech lavatory could be tracking your every movement.
Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) and MIT have teamed up with sanitation specialists to create the ‘FitLoo’ which screens human waste for early signs of disease.
Data gathered by the sensors in the toilet bowl could be beamed to the users mobile phone so they can see how their health is changing or even directly to the GP so they could keep a remote eye on patients.
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Nov 24, 2018
Twin’s Difficult Birth Put A Project Designed To Reduce C-Sections To The Test
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
Pilot Project To Reduce C-Sections Put To The Test By A Twin’s Difficult Birth : Shots — Health News A woman had twins in a hospital south of Boston last summer, right around dinner time. For doctors aiming to reduce cesareans, the second baby’s tricky arrival tested the limits of teamwork.
Nov 22, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — What is Immortality? — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, neuroscience
Nov 22, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Exciting Healthcare Startups — 2019 — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, disruptive technology, DNA, finance, genetics, health, innovation
Nov 22, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — What is BioHacking? — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, cryonics, futurism, genetics, health, neuroscience, posthumanism, singularity, transhumanism
Nov 19, 2018
First-Ever All-Female Antarctic Expedition Busts Women’s Endurance Myth
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: health
Women who trekked across Antarctica in the first-ever all-female expedition broke more than gender norms — they also busted the gender myth that, when it comes to extreme endurance exercise, women are weaker than men.
Sorry men, that’s not the case.
“Our findings contain some potentially myth-busting data on the impact of extreme physical activity on women,” lead study author Dr. Robert Gifford, of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Cardiovascular Science, said in a statement. “We have shown that with appropriate training and preparation, many of the previously reported negative health effects [of extreme exercise on women] can be avoided.”
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Nov 17, 2018
School with major chickenpox outbreak has high vaccination exemption rate
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, education, health
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — A chickenpox outbreak at a private school now ranks as North Carolina’s largest since a vaccine for the virus became available more than 20 years ago, health officials say.
As of Friday, 36 students at Asheville Waldorf School had contracted the varicella virus, known to most as chickenpox. The school has one of the highest vaccination religious exemption rates in the state.
The viral infection manifests in an itchy rash in most cases and is not typically life-threatening. But the outbreak at Asheville Waldorf should cause concern, said Dr. Jennifer Mullendore of Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nov 17, 2018
I’ve recently finished drafting two more chapters of my forthcoming book “Sustainable Superabundance” — the chapters on “Abundant Health” and “Abundant Intelligence”
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: health, sustainability
At this rate of progress, the book could be published by year end. Feedback welcome! https://transpolitica.org/projects/abundance-manifesto/