Remote MEDical Chip @Microchip. FGM Female Genital Mutilation. iPhone Cyber_Smart_Pill. ORGAN_Donation. Doctors WithOUT BorderZ. Birth Control. America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity. GRAPHINE. My self-destructing syringe could save millions of lives - health - 15 November 2011. Unsafe injections kill 1.3 million people a year, says former "spoilt brat" Marc Koska, who is on a mission to stop syringe reuse You are on a mission to stop the reuse of syringes. How big is the problem? The World Health Organization (WHO) says 1.3 million people die every year because of the reuse of syringes.
The burden of disease cost is over $100 billion a year from syringe reuse, which is just mind-blowingly horrific. Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. You invented a simple non-reusable syringe, the K1. I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university so I thought I would wander around. How did you go about designing a self-destructing syringe? Tanzania has just agreed to use only this kind of syringe. How did you persuade the Tanzanian officials to switch to non-reusable syringes? What's next for your safe syringe campaign? Profile New Scientist Not just a website! Promoted Stories.
The Food Hospital. Dr W.H.O.World Health. TSA Workers Fear Radiation Dangers From Scanners. WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --- After wading through documents he secured with a Freedom Of Information Act filing, the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg told 9NEWS NOW, "We think that the Department of Homeland Security has not been forthcoming with the public about the true extent of radiation risk with the airport body scanners.
" The release of new documents follows concerns of TSA workers that they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation as they conduct the screenings. Union representatives in Boston cite an increase in cancer cases among the TSA workforce there and have asked the agency to allow its members to wear radiation monitoring devices. "The Department, rather than acting on it, or explaining its position seems to have just dismissed. I don't think that's the way most other agencies would have acted in a similar situation if they were confronted with that question," Rotenberg said. NHS If You Dont Own IT, IT Will Own You!!!
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. DRIVING : Online Practice Knowledge Test. To get your L you’ll need to get 40 out of 50 questions right on a multiple-choice knowledge test. Passing it ensures you understand the rules of the road. It also means you’ve started thinking about safe driving behaviours before you start driving with a supervisor. Plastikman - Psykik. FREE THE WEED. Novartis Drug Curbs Breast Cancer in ’Game-Changing’ Study. Novartis AG (NOVN)’s kidney-cancer drug Afinitor also prevented breast cancer from worsening in a study that the Swiss drugmaker plans to use in applying for regulatory approval. Among women with breast tumors that had spread after treatment, Afinitor more than doubled the time until their disease worsened compared with those who only got Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s Aromasin, according to results presented at a cancer conference in Stockholm today.
The trial was stopped early because the primary goal was met earlier than expected. “This could be game-changing,” Jose Baselga, a Harvard Medical School professor and chief of hematology and oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital who led the study, said in an interview. “I don’t recall a study in this patient population that had this magnitude of an effect. It’s pretty exciting.” The findings move Novartis closer to marketing Afinitor for a fourth tumor type. European Approval Likely Other Tumor Types Side Effects. Free health care advice - websites and apps - Sep. 26. (MONEY Magazine) -- Looking to the Internet or your smartphone to help manage your family's health care? The experience may leave you reaching for aspirin. There are now a head-spinning 10,000-plus medical-related apps, and it's not always easy to tell the good from the bad, says Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association. Send The Help Desk your health care cost questions.
Meanwhile, Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) recent decision to shut down its electronic health records system, Google Health, owing to inadequate consumer interest, has left users stranded. So MONEY quizzed experts and sorted through the latest tools to zero in on the six most useful (all free). Websites simplee.com This new expense tracker -- co-founded by a former Shopping.com executive -- keeps all your claims and billing information in one place and lets you see at a glance how much money is left in your flexible spending account. Hospitalcompare.hhs.gov healthvault.com Apps iPhone and Android iTRIAGE. US Lags Other Countries In Healthcare. Critics of the Affordable Care Act continue to insist that the American health care system, as presently constructed, is the best in the world. But most of the available evidence suggests otherwise. And now there's yet one more set of data making the same point.
It comes from a study supported by the Commonwealth Fund, which specializes in comparisons of health care across country. And it looks at a statistic called "Mortality Amenable to Health Care. " Here are the details: In “Variations in Amenable Mortality—Trends in 16 High Income Nations,” Ellen Nolte of RAND Europe and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analyzed deaths that occurred before age 75 from causes like treatable cancer, diabetes, childhood infections/respiratory diseases, and complications from surgeries.
As I've written in past discussions of such statistics on quality of health care, you don't want to put too much stock in any one of them. B2B Social Media | A Berry Network Blog by Mark Williams.
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