Archive for the 'Health' Category
U.S. Meningitis Toll Up to 21 as Outbreak Widens
October 20th, 2012Via: AFP: The death toll in the United States from an unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a contaminated drug has climbed to 21 people, health officials said Friday. The number of infections tied to the tainted steroid rose to 271 in 16 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its […]
Reverse-Engineered Pacemaker Transmitter Enables ‘Anonymous Assassination’
October 18th, 2012Via: SC Magazine: IOActive researcher Barnaby Jack has reverse-engineered a pacemaker transmitter to make it possible to deliver deadly electric shocks to pacemakers within 30 feet and rewrite their firmware. The effect of the wireless attacks could not be overstated — in a speech at the BreakPoint security conference in Melbourne today, Jack said such […]
Medical Equipment Riddled with Malware
October 18th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog patient-monitoring equipment and other software systems, at times rendering the devices temporarily inoperable. While no injuries have been reported, the malware problem at hospitals is clearly rising nationwide, says Kevin […]
What Is Killing Sugar-Cane Workers Across Central America?
October 15th, 2012Via: Guardian: It goes by many names, but around here they call it “the malady of the sugar cane”. It’s a quiet epidemic that has been preying on Central America for at least 20 years, killing impoverished landworkers in their tens of thousands across Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. And it is becoming […]
TEPCO Admits It Could Have Prevented Fukushima Disaster
October 13th, 2012Via: Epoch Times: TEPCO, the Japanese utility in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that melted down last year, admitted on Friday that the disaster could have been averted. So why did it fail to act accordingly? Fear. The utility said it could have done more to prevent the earthquake and tsunami-triggered disaster that […]
Children’s Obsession with Screens ‘Causing Developmental Damage as Well as Long-Term Physical Harm’
October 10th, 2012Via: Guardian: Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television altogether, according to a paper in an influential medical journal published on Tuesday. A review of the evidence in the Archives […]
Feds Charge 91 in $430 Million Medicare Fraud
October 9th, 2012Via: Reuters: Ninety-one people including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals were charged criminally in a new sweep of Medicare fraud involving seven U.S. cities and $430 million in alleged false billing, officials said on Thursday. It was the government’s second big raid in recent months after a similar effort in May alleged $452 million […]
Deprived of Nature, Kids Exposed to ‘Shocking’ Amount of TV
October 2nd, 2012Via: Common Dreams: In addition to the troubling 80 minutes of TV that the average child in the United States watches each and every day, a new study released on Monday found that the amount of “secondhand” exposure to television for young children was “staggering” and should be of additional concern to parents and pediatricians […]
About One in Four People Out of Work in Spain and Greece
October 1st, 2012Via: Telegraph: Eurozone unemployment has hit a record high, revealing further evidence of a two-speed Europe as increasing numbers of young people in Spain, Greece and Italy desperately seek work while Germany’s jobless rate continues to fall. … The overall unemployment rate in Spain has reached 25.1pc, while the latest data from Greece for June […]
Jamie Lamb Hilton
October 1st, 2012Incredible. Via: New York Daily News: A former beauty queen says she is “pretty well back to normal” after undergoing a remarkable brain surgery in which 25 percent of her skull was stored in her abdomen for safe-keeping.
