Tag: health
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Release from hospitals. The new dark ages of science...
Michael Schumacher discharged from hospital, 'difficult road' still ahead. Or in other words: Michael Schumacher "released from hospital", as the main page of the CNN said on 9/9/2014. (1) Odd, how we use the same term for the release of someone from prison, to his exit from a hospital. Foucault knew something. We are all…
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Diseases. Symptoms. Analysis. Over-analysis...
Ten finalists have been chosen in a $10m (£6m) competition to develop a real-life "tricorder" - the medical scanner used in the Star Trek series. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, launched last year, challenges anyone to develop a wireless device capable of detecting a range of diseases. The technology employs sensors and imaging to measure…
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Saving time, heart attacks, doing nothing...
Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new U.S. study. By contrast, heart attack risk fell 21 percent later in the year, on the Tuesday after…
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Vaccines: Parents should decide on their own. [not Science!] (obvious?!?)
Whooping cough has turned up in North America after decades of near absence. Caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium, whooping cough is emerging from the shadows in response to a fateful switch of vaccines embraced in the 1990s, just when it seemed the disease was licked. The vaccine used today (acellular pertussis vaccine) has proved…
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