If this sounds a bit like something out of a horror novel, it's because this sounds a lot like what starts the evens of the horror classic from Stephen King called The Stand. Apparently, researchers working on bird flu have created a strain of the bird flu virus that is lethal and easily spread through the air. Some fear that the mutated strain might be used as a bio weapon.
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‘medical’ Stories
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Baby got…hips?! Jacked up face with a sideways booty
The morning weird for you all today is of a medical nature and perhaps one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Generally, if you want to have plastic surgery done you would look around and check some references of the doctor you are planning to use. The surgeon planning to put stuff into your body and change things permanently isn't where you scrimp me thinks.
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Toyota medical robots give the ill a leg up
Toyota is into all sorts of things even though we mostly think of the company for cars here in the US. Toyota is talking about its new Partner Robots that are aiming for a commercial launch in 2013 for Japanese users. There are three different robots that are aimed at helping the sick or handicapped be able to more freely in the home and out.
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Nokia C7 sits in world’s first prosthetic smartphone arm
Mister Trevor Prideaux, a British man born without an arm on the left side of his body, now has what we're pretty sure is the world's first prosthetic limb with a built-in smartphone dock. Not only that, but he's using the cool Nokia C7, a device that not only Chris Davies reviewed here on SlashGear, your humble narrator Chris Burns wrote a review for the USA side of things as well. Now one of these magical little devices sits in the hardened arm of a Brit - hows that for taking your "handicap" and making it work in your favor. Plain old human arm not looking so good to you now, is it?
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Video games used successfully to treat “lazy eye” in older kids
A new study has been conducted that investigated the use of video games to treat a condition of the eye called amblyopia, more commonly known as lazy eye. The study looked at the use of video games as a way to treat lazy eye in kids who were between 10 and 18 years old. The study found significant gains can be made when using video games as a treatment.
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Stem cell human trial gets Euro go-ahead
The first European human embryonic stem cell therapy trial has been given approval today, with British surgeons planning to inject the cells into the eyes of twelve patients suffering from Stargardt's macular dystrophy. The disease, incurable, is a major cause of blindness in young people, the Guardian reports, and scientists at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, UK, hope the introduction of stem cells will slow, halt or - in the best case scenario - reverse the macular dystrophy. However, controversy still reigns over stem cell therapies, given that they are obtained from human embryonic cells.
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Implantable sensor can monitor tumors constantly to sense growth
Fighting cancer is very touch on the caregivers because they need to find the medications that will kill the cancer cells without causing too many side effects for the patent. The problem is that too much cancer treatment like chemotherapy can make the person with cancer sicker than the tumor itself. Cancer is one of the biggest areas of research in the medical field and researchers have developed an interesting new implantable sensor that can continuously monitor the growth of a tumor.
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Asahi Kasei RFID device stores medical data and uses FeliCa tech
When it comes to emergencies, where a life hangs in the balance accessing information about the patient seconds faster could mean the difference between life and death. When people with severe medical issues or allergies are in an accident where they are unable to communicate with responders the special needs that doctors and paramedics don’t know about can make a huge difference in treatment and the outcome for the person.
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Modded iPhone may be able to track oxygen, sodium and glucose in the blood
A team of medical researchers is working on a really cool way for people that need to track certain vital statistics about their body. They are working on a system that uses an iPhone to monitor things like the sodium in the blood, blood glucose, or the amount of oxygen in their blood. The modified iPhone would work in conjunction with a nanosensor "tattoo" on the person's skin.
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Researchers develop soft memory with the consistency of Jell-O
As technology progresses there are a number of ways that tech will be able to help people recover from illness and accidents that compromise the function of a part of the body. Often the sort of tech that can help repair damaged body systems has to be implanted. The problem with implanting electronic in the body today is that most of the gear is ridged and the body tends to reject anything it sees as foreign leading to the need for all sorts of drugs to prevent rejection in many instances.
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PossessedHand is Evil Dead come to life
Having a hand that doesn't do what you want it to do or does things on its own is horror flick fare. Two prime examples of this in cinema would be Evil Dead and The Hand. If those flicks give you the creeps, you might want to look away now. Researchers at Tokyo University worked with Sony to create a new and weird contraption that allows them to hack your body and take control of your hand. I could see this tech leading to some impressively control prosthetics with a few tweaks too.
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Japanese researchers create self-propelled endoscope capsule
The endoscope has been the go to tool for doctors that need to look inside the digestive tract of a patient since the 1980's. These things are generally long, black cables that are forced through the mouth of up the bum of people when the doctors need to check for things like colon cancer or stomach issues. In 2008, we talked about a new development in endoscope tools that placed the camera into a small pill shaped capsule that the person swallowed to get a look at their innards.
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