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Stepping into the health debate around electronic cigarettes is a messy and frustrating exercise. Depending on whom you ask, these devices are either the best technological solution to the smoking pandemic or the biggest looming threat to public health. So to sort through the research and figure out whether e-cigarettes are actually safe, I read…
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his…
Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like…
CONTENT OF THE POST Anti-vax Twitter consists of several thousand vaccine denialists whose present project is stopping California’s mandatory vaccine bill, through campaigns of lockstep tweeting to lawmakers, workplace and home-based harassment of dissenters, and coordinated SEO campaigns that muddy the waters for concerned parents who try to research the subject. Renee DiResta (a vaccination…
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it ricocheted…
In a television commercial from a few years ago for Abilify — one of the world’s top selling drugs — a sad cartoon woman looks down at the ground and sees an expanding black hole with bulging eyes. “Here’s my depression,” she says. Regular antidepressants weren’t working to keep her depression in check, she explains….
Who should save the sight of an uninsured South Carolina man who can’t afford eye surgery? That’s the question the Charlotte Observer asks in a story about a 49-year-old Republican who declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable Care…
any images in the post content will be duplicated here as well adding this for mobile swiping Slide: 1 / of 1 .Caption: Lung cancer. Coloured X-ray of the chest of an 84 year old woman with a malignant (cancerous) tumour (yellow) in the apex of the right lung (top left). DU CANE MEDICAL IMAGING…
OK, some facial growths may look like a toilet brush, but that’s as far as it goes. Photograph: Alamy According to multiple news sites, beards can contain more poo than a toilet. Here are a few of the headlines: “Some beards contain more poo than a toilet shocking study reveals” – the Mirror “Shock new…
– En skäggig människa har ju mindre bakterier på sig än en slätrakad, det är känt. För när man rakar sig blir det små hål i huden och då läcker det ut lite blodplasma vilket gör att bakterierna får näring och börjar tillväxa, säger Agnes Wold, professor i klinisk bakteriologi. Det var tv-kanalen KOAT i…