medical
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Google Glass Hospital Tech Demo: The Future Of Health Care?
The medical wing of Philips has teamed up with Accenture and Google to make a Google Glass concept that looks like it might actually be useful, offering something significantly more impressive than giving stalkers a new way to take creepy photos.
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Colour-Changing Ink Ensures These Syringes Are Never Re-Used
Vaccines can be a vital way to stop the spread of disease in some parts of the world. But in underdeveloped countries it turns out that the syringes used for vaccine injections are re-used again and again, which actually results in the spread of other dangerous conditions. To discourage this, Dr David Swann of Huddersfield…
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How The CSIRO Allegedly Ripped Off A Major Pharmaceutical Company
I love the CSIRO. You probably do, too. I love the idea of a group of really smart people coming together to further our collective knowledge, so to hear that the organisation is being accused of deliberately misleading a major pharmaceutical company by reportedly selling it simple chemicals masked as a complex, in-house anti-counterfeiting technology…
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Smart Shocking Shorts Stop Sleeptime Sores
Racy undewear can often be described as shocking, but rarely has that statement been literally true. Neuroscientists have designed a pair of pants that look a bit like cycling shorts and which send tiny electric currents to the wearer’s bottom. The undergarment has the potential to prevent pressure ulcers in people with mobility problems. This…