People today are experiencing hair loss at a rate not seen by previous generations. Even children are starting to lose their hair, especially young boys. Some of us can probably remember a friend who started experiencing a receding hair line while still in high school. In recent years, the problem has gotten much worse, with […]
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Patients can benefit from a bottle cap with a clock
TimerCaps is a new product from a company in California proposing to help patients with a little nudge ✔ Monitor of last dosage – Disoriented and cognitively impaired patients need a tool to know last dose to know when it safe to take another or resume driving. ✔ Managing medication in the bottles […]
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria from New Delhi Kills Nevada Woman
On August 25, 2016, the Washoe County Health District in Reno, Nevada, was notified of a patient at an acute care hospital with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) that was resistant to all available antimicrobial drugs. The specific CRE, Klebsiella pneumoniae, was isolated from a wound specimen collected on August 19, 2016. After CRE was identified, the […]
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Data from wearables can predict disease
Smartwatch data can be used to detect and even predict disease, researchers say. This is good news for people betting on the potential of smartwatches to improve health beyond encouraging us to move more. If it becomes common to use this data to predict illness, we might be able to take better care of ourselves […]
Why Does Stepping on Legos Hurt So Much?
Right up there with how the gun on the original Duck Hunt game worked, why it hurts so much to step on a Lego brick is one of the questions we’re asked the most, so it’s high time we answered it. As anyone who’s done it knows, stepping on a Lego block is something akin […]
