Health

Stop Being Lazy And Come Play Nike+ Tag With Your Friends

If you need competition of sorts in order to get motivated, then you’ll love the new TAG feature in the Nike+ GPS iPhone app. It basically lets you challenge friends based on distance, time, or who’s the last to run. The way the feature works is that you’re prompted to invite friends to play tag…

Health Rosa Golijan

Hands-On With the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock

Back in 2009, when Apple announced accessory support for iPhone OS, they proposed an at-home medical device capable of sending data to doctors. The iHealth dock is that device, and it could totally transform your relationship with your blood pressure. There are plenty of reasons people take their blood pressure at home, and a blood…

Health Kyle VanHemert

PowerBalance Admits Their Wristbands Are a Scam

I don’t think this would surprise anyone, but PowerBalance—manufacturers of plastic wristbands with hologram stickers on it—have admitted that there’s “no credible scientific evidence that supports [their] claims and therefore [they] engaged in misleading conduct.” Here’s their statement: In our advertising we stated that Power Balance wristbands improved your strength, balance and flexibility. We admit…

Health Jesus Diaz

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

Marci Farber sought radiosurgery to treat a pain from a nerve deep in her head. Today, she’s “in a nursing home, nearly comatose, unable to speak, eat or walk.” What happened? The radiation hit places it wasn’t supposed to. Her story, reported in today’s NYT, is far from an isolated incident, and it speaks to…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Study: Daily Aspirin Can Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Cancer Up to 60%

Researchers have found a drug that’s unexpectedly effective at reducing one’s chances of dying from many common forms of cancer, in some cases lessening fatalities up to 60%. It’s a small, long term daily dose of aspirin. In a new report, stemming from eight long term studies including some 25,000 patients, British researchers found that…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Robotic Trousers For Paralyzed Patients Will Go On Sale Next Month

Paralyzed from a car crash, Israeli Amit Goffer created robotic trousers just like Wallace & Gromit’s—only not controlled by an evil penguin. The ReWalk trousers use sensors and motors to aid users’ rehabilitation, teaching them to walk again. Not only can they help patients stand and walk, but they can also show them how to…

Health Kat Hannaford

Facebook Stalking Can Actually Kill You If You’re Not Careful

A new article in the medical journal Lancet details the story of an 18-year-old kid who consistently found himself with “difficult and labored breathing” after using Facebook. The problem? He was using Facebook to stalk his ex-girlfriend. Recently, we learned that Facebook stalking can save lives. The thing is: It can also kill you. If…

Health Max Read

Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

In July, nine-year-old Ming Li lost her hand in a tractor accident. Her arm was too damaged to reattach it, so they grafted it to her leg instead. Three months later, her hand’s back on her arm and regaining function. I’m having trouble finding much in the way of detail on the story, which admittedly…

Health Kyle VanHemert

How To: Keep a Severed Head Alive

Ready for some service? Here’s a patent, awarded in 1985, describing a system for “perfusing an animal head.” Creepily, the head shown in the diagram is not an animal’s. Wait what’s that? You want to see it in action? Welp… The Atlantic unearthed the patent, describing how an animal’s “discorporated” head could be supplied with…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Why Cheese is Like “Dairy Crack”: Because It’s Got Morphine In It

Last week, I visited a cheese restaurant, where every dish is based around cheese. Before leaving the house, though, I snaffled a slice of brie from the fridge. Is this because a.) I’m a fatty, or b.) cheese is addictive? If you chose both answers, you’re right. Turns out that researchers have known since the…

Health Kat Hannaford

Study Claims That Playing Tetris Helps You Cope With Traumatic Experiences

A recent study claims that playing a game like Tetris might just help you get through everyday life after suffering a tragic experience. Sounds crazy? Here’s the science. Playing the computer game Tetris after a horrific experience can act like a “cognitive antibiotic” by reducing the harrowing flashbacks that haunt people with post-traumatic stress disorder…

Health Duncan Graham-Rowe and Debora MacKenzie - NewScientist

In 1911, Coca Cola went on trial for being a killer brain tonic

In March 1911, a federal lawsuit against Coca Cola (The United States Government vs. Forty Barrels, Twenty Kegs Coca-Cola,) began in Chattanooga. How come? The US government alleged that Coke’s added caffeine was a deadly poison. Nowadays Coca Cola is demonized for causing obesity and dissolving your incisors, but in the early 1900s the US…

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Huge Virus Breakthrough Could Mean a Cure For the Common Cold

Researchers at a Cambridge lab have found that our bodies can fight viruses not only outside cells but inside them, too, a discovery that will rewrite textbooks and one that could save millions of lives and vanquish the common cold. Viruses are responsible for roughly twice as many deaths as cancer, hiding away inside cells…

Health Kyle VanHemert

“Skin Printers” Could Become Biological Inkjets of the Battlefield

Gaping battlefield flesh wounds that take off more than 4 cm of skin can’t heal without aid, so researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine created a fantastical system that literally prints skin on demand. Using the same “fluid-based inkjet technology” found in those freebie printers that big box chains throw in with laptop…

Health Jack Loftus

BP Dispersants Causing “Non-Stop Diarrhea” and Other Pleasant Side Effects

Remember when BP was responsible for horrible things, and then they plugged the hole and we moved on to worrying about other horrible things? Things are still horrible! The chemical they used to break down oil is making people ill. https://gizmodo.com/when-things-fall-apart-the-nightmares-of-an-offshore-o-5575921 Al Jazeera investigated the current chemical state of the Gulf, and found that the…

Health Sam Biddle

Would You Trust Robots With Prostate Surgery?

Robots named McSleepy and DaVinci, I might add. I’m not sure I’d trust them with anything other than bed-making and painting, but one chap agreed to go under the knife in the world’s first robotic surgery. Fame has been thrown upon the Canadian McGill University Health Centre for this dangerous feat, though you’ll be pleased…

Health Kat Hannaford

CPR No Longer an Excuse To Kiss Someone

CPR has long comprised three steps: clearing one’s airway, administering mouth-to-mouth breathing, and pumping their chest. But the American Heart Association’s new guidelines say that untrained resuscitators should just skip the whole mouth-to-mouth part. Wait! No! The new guidelines state that chest compressions are the most important part of Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and in most cases,…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Brain chemistry may explain why men are more likely to become alcoholics

Men are up to twice as likely to become alcoholics than women, and a new study indicates that this propensity may be tied to dopamine production. Researchers found that men’s brains are hardwired to release more dopamine when consuming booze. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that’s released when the human body partakes in activities like sex…

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Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your Cellphone

Currently, if a cardiac patient’s heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a friendly remedial shock to avoid a heart attack. But that could soon change—by giving hearts their very own IP addresses. Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, this week demonstrated a new type of wireless body…

Health Duncan Graham-Rowe - New Scientist

The Easy Way to Get a Six-Pack: Optical Illusion

Because it’s important, the New York Times took a look at various creams that promise better abs, no crunches required. Packed with skin-tighteners like caffeine and aminophylline, these products can actually make your stomach look leaner than it really is. Lab Series Skincare for Men Ab Rescue Sculpting Gel ($30 for 6.7 ounces). Ideal Marketing…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Stop Being Lazy And Come Play Nike+ Tag With Your Friends

Hands-On With the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock

PowerBalance Admits Their Wristbands Are a Scam

How Careless Radiation Treatment Is Devastating Patients

Study: Daily Aspirin Can Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Cancer Up to 60%

Robotic Trousers For Paralyzed Patients Will Go On Sale Next Month

Facebook Stalking Can Actually Kill You If You’re Not Careful

Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

How To: Keep a Severed Head Alive

Why Cheese is Like “Dairy Crack”: Because It’s Got Morphine In It

Study Claims That Playing Tetris Helps You Cope With Traumatic Experiences

In 1911, Coca Cola went on trial for being a killer brain tonic

Huge Virus Breakthrough Could Mean a Cure For the Common Cold

“Skin Printers” Could Become Biological Inkjets of the Battlefield

BP Dispersants Causing “Non-Stop Diarrhea” and Other Pleasant Side Effects

Would You Trust Robots With Prostate Surgery?

CPR No Longer an Excuse To Kiss Someone

Brain chemistry may explain why men are more likely to become alcoholics

Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your Cellphone

The Easy Way to Get a Six-Pack: Optical Illusion

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