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Feb 24, 2016
Cybersecurity Expert Finds Nissan Leaf Susceptible to Hacking
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, health
One of the many reasons why hacking is a dangerous to our health. If a hacker can hack your Leaf and control heat/ air, collect data on your trips, they can also shutdown your engine abruptly on the road too.
Nissan’s Leaf may be hackable.
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Feb 24, 2016
These are the technologies that can help achieve the cancer moonshot
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI
Nice — Liquid biopsies, AI therapy, silico trials, precision surgery.
Negotiations and collaborations are launching now to decide which research trends and areas deserve the most support. Only disruptive innovations will be able to transform the status quo in cancer, leading patients to get more personalized and faster cancer care, while letting physicians do their job more effectively. Here are the technologies and trends that could help achieve the cancer moonshot.
Prevention and diagnosis
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Feb 23, 2016
Health care is about to get smarter: The artificial intelligence boom
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI
I still see AI as a supportive solution to handle more standardized operations still requiring oversight by people. As long as hacking exist the level of allowing systems to own and manage processes without people oversight is not going to happen until hacking is resolved.
It is predicted that the use of AI in health care will grow tenfold in the next five years, and not all of the medical applications will be for doctors. The technology is accelerating drug discovery, increasing compliance and even tracking changes in markers of ‘youthfulness,’ empowering people to better manage their own health.
Feb 22, 2016
RMIT Researchers Examine Environmental and Health Risks Posed by 3D Printing
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, computing, health, materials
3D Printing hazardous to the environment due to toxins.
Three-dimensional (3D) printing, also known as additive manufacturing, refers to those technologies capable of developing 3D objects from raw materials, like metals and polymers based on computerized 3D parametric models.
Feb 22, 2016
TAME | Tell Congress to Fund Critical Healthspan Research
Posted by Matt Johnstone in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
Help start a revolution in heathcare!
Sign onto our new letter of support and let your Senator know — the time is NOW to fund the first ever FDA approved research to target ALL the diseases of aging at once.
http://tame.healthspanpolicy.org/
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Feb 21, 2016
The brain starts to give up its secrets
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
Great progress by Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has study astrocytes (the star shape brain cells) which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, could be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.
A research team, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain. The research, which is published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, could be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease. The discovery, which shows that the brain has a far greater ability to adapt and respond to changes than previously believed, could have significant implications on epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.
Astrocytes are star-shaped cells in our brain that surround brain neurons, and neural circuits, protecting them from injury and enabling them to function properly – in essence, one of their main roles is to ‘baby-sit’ neurons. Our brain contains billions of cells, each of which need to communicate between each other in order to function properly. This communication is highly dependent on the behaviour of astrocytes. Until now, the mechanisms that create and maintain differences among astrocytes, and allow them to fulfill specialized roles, has remained poorly understood.
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Feb 21, 2016
Experimental drug may limit harmful effects of traumatic brain injury
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
Very nice.
Drug appears to “dampen down” detrimental inflammatory responses without suppressing the normal functions cells need to maintain health.
Feb 21, 2016
Global Healthspan Policy Institute Photo
Posted by Matt Johnstone in categories: health, life extension, policy
Feb 20, 2016
India to Change Its Decades-Old Reliance on Female Sterilization
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: health
For decades, India has relied on female sterilization as its primary mode of contraception, funding about four million tubal ligations every year, more than any other country. This year, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take a major step toward modernizing that system, introducing injectable contraceptives free of charge in government facilities. The World Health Organization recommends their use without restriction for women of childbearing age.
New birth control options have long been advocated by international organizations, among them the United States Agency for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They say Indian women — often worn out, anemic and at higher risk of death because they bear children young and often — urgently need methods to delay or space pregnancies.