On the CTIA pavilion (hall 15, booth E04) at the Medica tradefair in Dusseldorf, Germany (20-23 November), ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA is introducing a new ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, UV LED-Based
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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British computer scientists are creating a virtual birthing simulator that will hopefully enable doctors and midwives to receive an early warning of an upcoming unusual or dangerous birth, the University of East Anglia said Friday. The ...
Tags: virtual birthing Simulator, Predict Childbirth Problems
Sometimes a regular digital camera has the potential to shed light on eye conditions. In the case of infant Noah Shaw, it may have been an early warning of cancer—and an advance in ophthalmology, according to a recent report in ...
Tags: Ophthalmology, Baby Photos, Popular Science
The MedTech Industry's Premier Design Competition is now accepting entries. Proudly presented by UBM Canon and MD+DI , the Medical Design Excellence Awards program has provided market visibility to over 600 innovative medical products that ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns doctors of the rare but serious risk of heart attack and death with use of the cardiac nuclear stress test agents. The cardiac nuclear stress test agents Lexiscan, or regadenoson, and Adenoscan, ...
You probably know by now that turmeric has been acknowledged as a potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer substance. Turmeric is a rhizome with edible roots that grow underground horizontally. It's actually related to ginger ...
Tags: 7, super-healing, turmeric, diet
Head lice can be a parent's nightmare, but head lice with resistance to common over-the-counter lice treatments can be parents' and doctors' nightmares. Many countries have been reporting a growing number of lice cases with resistance to ...
Tags: insecticidal, resistance, lice, natural treatment
For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...
Coconut oil, from the research I have done, is by far the best of the best. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, ...
With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
A University of Pittsburgh research team recently published results in the journal PLOSOne regarding omega-3's ability to improve memory. A major difference from other memory studies was their subjects were young, 18 to 25, non-smoking ...
In March 2010, high school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma. He was so much more dead than alive that the physician who ...
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Pathogenic bacteria already exist in even a healthy gut. But the healthy gut maintains a balance between beneficial and pathogenic bacteria of usually 80 to 85 percent beneficial to 20 or 15 percent pathogenic. This ratio is normal for a ...
U.S. health officials announced new guidance limits for antibiotics used for children due to the high amount of inappropriate uses of the drug. The report, Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Bacterial Upper Respiratory ...
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