Archive for the 'Health' Category
TellSpec
October 3rd, 2013Via: TellSpec: We are raising funds for the development and manufacture of TellSpec, the world’s first reliable and accurate handheld device that scans and analyzes the composition of food so consumers know the real ingredients before they buy or eat the food. TellSpec brings together laser spectroscopy and a unique mathematical algorithm in a revolutionary […]
Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law
October 3rd, 2013Via: New York Times: A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an […]
New Baby Smell
October 3rd, 2013haha. Becky and I thought that we were just imaging this. Via: New York Times: Nature provides plenty of reasons for parents to adore their newborns. The giant eyes, the adorable coos, the flawless skin. But in the days following the birth of my son in May, it was his fresh, slightly sweet and immensely […]
India’s Booming ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Industry
September 30th, 2013Via: Reuters: India opened up to commercial surrogacy in 2002. It is among just a handful of countries – including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine – and a few U.S. states where women can be paid to carry another’s genetic child through a process of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo transfer. The low-cost technology, skilled […]
How Does Obamacare Affect Americans Living Abroad?
September 26th, 2013*phew* For now, anyway… However, about 3/4 of Cryptogon readers will be affected by this, so… Via: Yahoo: If you’re living outside the US, you don’t have to purchase health insurance by the end of March, 2014, through what will be the newly established health insurance marketplaces in each state. And unlike other citizens residing […]
Man Fitted with Thought Controlled Bionic Leg
September 25th, 2013Via: CBS: For the first time ever, doctors have developed an artificial leg that is controlled by the person’s thoughts. And it happened here at the Rehabilitation Institute Of Chicago (RIC). “So I move my leg out, push the toes down and bring my toes back up,” said Zac Vawter, the first man in the […]
Fukushima Forever
September 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to […]
Families with MMR Vaccine Injured Children Receive Compensation
September 18th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as “vaccine court,” has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for “pain and suffering” and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars. The government did not admit that vaccines caused autism, at least […]
Dutch Health Official: Sugar Is Dangerous, Very Addictive
September 17th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Paul van der Velpen, the head of Amsterdam’s health service, the Dutch capital city where the sale of cannabis is legalised, wants to see sugar tightly regulated. “Just like alcohol and tobacco, sugar is actually a drug. There is an important role for government. The use of sugar should be discouraged. And users […]
Teach People About Food Atrocities with an App?
September 16th, 2013Via: Chipotle Mexican Grill – Scarecrow The Game: Related: The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation Research Credit: ottilie
