“Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a low-cost syringe that can’t be used twice.“
Archive for the ‘Health News’ Category
Re-inventing the syringe
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18
Sunday, October 18th, 2009- Dietary modifications to prevent kidney stones http://j.mp/tfpzk #
- Elevated pre-op BNP is a predictor of cardiovascular events in first 30 days after non-cardiac surgery http://bit.ly/NxTjr #
- McDonald's has online math program for kids in Australia with the ad- "proudly provided by your local McDonald’s" http://bit.ly/8aHK0 #
- Google introduces search options for mobile browsers http://bit.ly/YUFnY #iphone #android #palm #
- The New Yorker: How different are dogfighting and football? http://bit.ly/1THpqS #
- The New Yorker Slideshow: This Is Your Brain On Football http://bit.ly/nFeiG #
- For doctors, less sleep is linked with more mistakes http://bit.ly/1TqGpL #
- In surgeries, mistakes were made nearly twice as often when the doctor had slept fewer than 6 hours http://bit.ly/1TqGpL #
- The most frequent complications during surgeries (by surgeons who did not sleep) were injured organs and bleeding http://bit.ly/1TqGpL #
- Google Wave already working on iphone and android http://bit.ly/yOelt #
- Annals patient page: Assessing the best way to prevent spread of influenza http://j.mp/z8IR4 #
- CNN video: 2-minute CPR lesson http://bit.ly/xKTZc (via @DrVes) #
- RT @DrVes: Phenotypic differences between male physicians, surgeons, and film stars: comparative study. BMJ http://bit.ly/1bVdKx #
- More MRI Scanners Lead to Excess Back Surgeries http://bit.ly/SQsVK #
- NPR: Debate Over H1N1 Vaccine? There Shouldn't Be One-More at http://bit.ly/13syBr #
- Report: Smoking bans protect nonsmokers' hearts http://bit.ly/3NhzHE #
- Studies: Some nursing home elderly get futile care http://bit.ly/3d6o7L #
- Video: iPhone App Remotely Drives a Chrysler Minivan http://j.mp/vwsmD #iphone #
- People Wash Their Hands More When They're Watched http://j.mp/Oe7W3 #
- FDA Warns of Unapproved and Illegal H1N1 Drug Products On the Internet http://j.mp/33Og6X #swine #flu #
- RT @AHAScience: World Stroke Day is Oct. 29. Learn what you can do to make a difference. http://tinyurl.com/yzf8ugg #
- Google Blog offers tips to manage your online reputation in search results http://bit.ly/2m7lY4 #
- 30 years of failure: the username/password combination – and we still use it! http://j.mp/BVpk7 #
- Tylenol reduces effectives of vaccines in children http://bit.ly/3LPbDp (Lancet) http://bit.ly/2Hfv3W (WebMD) #
- FDA Approves Gardasil to Prevent Genital Warts in Men and Boys
http://j.mp/2l4G0b # - RT @DrVes: WHO: New H1N1 flu is "strikingly different" from seasonal flu, kills younger people and often very fast http://bit.ly/1HDTDd #
- NPR: H1N1 #swine Flu Claiming A Rising Toll-More at http://bit.ly/3KhHdq #
- Popular Science: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 http://j.mp/pX408 #
Building a brain in a supercomputer
Friday, October 16th, 2009“Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain’s 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.”
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11
Sunday, October 11th, 2009- Smoke-free legislation reduces rate of heart attack, and these benefits grow with time http://bit.ly/RRUNI #
- Can air pollution cause appendicitis? http://bit.ly/3oUp4P Possibly!! #
- There is insufficient evidence to support evaluating risk of heart disease based on non-traditional risk factors http://bit.ly/kvasD #
- Non traditional risk factors for heart disease – CRP, homocysteine, lipoprotein(a), ABI, cardiac CT, CIMT http://bit.ly/kvasD #
- Hand hygiene and face masks may prevent household transmission of influenza virus http://bit.ly/CtO1K #
- The New Yorker: Swine Flu rumors and fears http://bit.ly/3vmil #
- Is cystatin C the next creatinine? http://bit.ly/17q2bm #
- 13 million songs were for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer http://bit.ly/4FiwEk #
- Last year 80% of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs (less than 1% of all songs) http://bit.ly/4FiwEk #
- Convertibles Hazardous to Your Hearing: When driven at 70 mph, the noise averaged 89 decibels http://bit.ly/9KjmF (via @DrVes) #
- Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension may be attenuated by iron supplementation and exacerbated by iron depletion http://bit.ly/cfKUi #
- Can driving a convertible cause hearing loss http://bit.ly/21TFTg Possible #
- NY Times: 20 Food rules to live by! http://bit.ly/19AXe9 #
- Michael Jordan: "I’ve missed 9000 shots. I’ve lost 399 games. I’ve failed over and over again. And that’s why I succeed" via @SteveCase #
- Hormone replacement therapy increases risk of death in women who ALREADY have lung cancer http://bit.ly/9yHpb #
- Swine Flu: Who Is Most Vulnerable? http://bit.ly/vkmR8 #
- 8 Ways Physicians Can Use Evernote http://bit.ly/x2iDd (via @DrVes) #
- Exercise improves life expectancy in patients with chronic kidney disease http://bit.ly/nf9ii #
- Google flu trends now analyzes data from 16 countries to try and predict influenza epidemic before health officials http://bit.ly/T9U6k #
- Proton pump inhibitors attenuate the effect of anti-platelets but the interaction is not clinically significant http://bit.ly/14zSyu #
Teen pregnancy rates and religion
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009I am not drawing any conclusions but interesting data nevertheless:
Sources:
The Examiner: High teen pregnancy rates/conservative religious states: New study results indicate correlation
Links to Data on Swivel:
