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Mobile, Storage, & Shelter, For The Homeless
A new design could offer an upgrade to the standard cardboard box: . . . The “urban rough sleeper” from a Danish designer, is a . . . . . . rugged tent that folds up into a . . . . . . backpack so it can be . . . . . . carried around during the day. 2...
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Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2014
Over 24,000 physicians in 25 specialties responded this year. 2014-04-22 Source: Slideshow
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Medical Marijuana, That Doesn't Get You High
Tikun Olamws main agenda is to help the patients that are struggling severe illnesses. since medical cannabis is a unique medicine and is influencing every individual in a different way, we believe that every patient should receive a professional guida...
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Mana = “Mother Administered Nutritive Aid”
Just 3 servings of MANA a day can save the life of a starving child. . . . A fortified peanut paste that’s been carefully formulated . . . to provide all of a child’s basic nutritional needs. Source: mananutrition
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Low-Tech Bicycle-Powered Blood Centrifuge
Jack Trew, a design student at Birmingham City University in the UK's answer, . . . consists of just a handful of parts, that form a single unit, . . . for holding a patient's blood sample, . . . attached to the spokes of a rear bicycle wheel,...
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Look Forward To A Really Hot Summer
WeatherBug, is forecasting a summer similar to 2012, . . . which was the 3rd-hottest summer on record. Temperatures will be particularly high in the . . . Great Plains region into the Rockies, and . . . in Western Texas and parts of the Southeast. Mo...
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Kenguru Electric Wheelchair Car
The Kenguru is a low speed vehicle meant to be driven around a neighborhood. . . . 25 mph top speed, . . . 60 miles range per day, . . . 7 feet by 5 feet footprint, . . . 5-15 second load time, . . . any user can enter the Kenguru and secure themselves...
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Jnj's $32 Billion Bid For Actelion
Actelion makes therapies to treat, . . . pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), . . . a disease characterized by, . . . high blood pressure between the heart, and lungs. Wells Fargo Securities believes, . . . Johnson & Johnson may buy Actelion for...
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Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin before he addressed the World Forum for Democracy
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Japans 7-Eleven Stores Deliver With Electric Ve...
The number of people in Japan aged 65 or over, . . . stood at 29.75 million as of October 1 last year, or 23.3%, an all-time high . . . one of the highest proportions of elderly people in the world and . . . will reach nearly 40% of the country's...
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Iphone: Track All Your Key Vital Health Data
Azoi Wello: a thin lightweight smartphone case, . . . embedded with sensors that measures: . . . . . . blood pressure, . . . . . . electrocardiography (ECG), . . . . . . heart rate, . . . . . . blood oxygen, . . . . . . temperature, and . . . . . . lun...
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Iphone: Glucose Monitor
DarioHealth provides the glucose meter to diabetics, . . . letting them measure their blood sugar levels. The scan results are shown on the company’s iPhone app, . . . alongside previous measurements. Data is sent to a carer or physician, . . . giving...
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Iphone Biosensor
A portable iPhone cradle made up of about . . . US$200 worth of electronics is claimed to be as accurate of a biosensor as a . . . US$50,000 spectrophotometer that remains stuck in a lab. Source: iphone
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Inexpensive Skin #cancer Detector
A new device called the sKan . . . 2017 James Dyson Award winner, . . . makes heat maps of the skin, to . . . identify anomalies associated with melanoma, . . . the most deadly form of skin cancer, . . . to enable earlier detection. https://www.youtube...
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In Healthcare, It’S All About Mobility
IBM, Apple & Epic, partnership has tremendous potential, . . . to make the business of healthcare much more mobile. The goal is to create a true mobile link between providers and patients, . . . by combining the strengths of all 3 companies. . . ....
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In Celebration Of Bikes.
Feb 02 2014 12:00 AM | Shortpoet-GTD in Health
Great news via text/pictures about bikes via Treehugger.
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Idoctor
Could a smartphone be the future of medicine? http://www.youtube.c...p?v=r13uYs7jglg
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Ibm-Apple Deal: Healthcare Ios
Dan Pelino, a IBM general manager said, . . . we will build on work under way already with Apple, . . . with the iPhone and iPad" for healthcare applications, and . . . IBM MobileFirst for iOS platform. The marriage of "Siri" and "Wats...
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How To Convert Co2
Researchers at Université Laval have created a means of . . . converting carbon dioxide(CO2) directly into methanol fuel. CO2 to methanol catalysis requires a source of . . . hydrogen and chemical energy. Source: CO2
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How To Control Health Care Costs
50% of all health costs, are caused by only 5% of the people. The way to cut costs, is to detect those cases, . . . before they become expensive to treat, . . . but that requires monitoring by health care professionals. But hiring that many profession...
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How To Build A Healthy Home
It will be: . . . . . . Passive House standard. . . . . . . Insulated with rock wool. . . . . . . Built on stilts. . . . . . . Heated electrically. . . . . . . Heat recovery ventilator with a HEPA filter. . . . . . . Vestibule with lots of storag...
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How Fat Is Your State?
The pie charts, are population size, . . . Gray = Normal . . . Orange = Overweight . . . Brown = Obese "Click" the play button (Bottom left conner) . . . . to see the changes from 1995 to 2011 Source: Map
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How Apple Healthkit Will Work
HealthKit, is the center of a new healthcare system by Apple. . . . It's goal, is to improve the accuracy and speed of reporting data to Doctors. Potentially doctors would be able to warn patients of an impending problem. . . . Regulated medical de...
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Hospital’S: "mycarolinas Tracker" App
For wearables, and health trackers to clinically matter, . . . they have to integrate with the physician facing electronic heath record. Carolina HealthCare System's, "MyCarolinas Tracker" app, . . . has direct integration with more than:...
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Healthcare: Apple Vs Samsung
Samsung has the: . . . . . . device, . . . . . . platform, . . . . . . medical diagnostics, . . . . . . imaging, . . . . . . patient records access and more. Apple said that wearable devices compatible with the new iOS 8 operating system . . . will be...
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