Friday, August 31, 2012

Toilet Tech: a big deal..Caltech wins

http://features.caltech.edu/features/423

08/15/12

Caltech Wins Toilet Challenge

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Population Implosion...interesting perspective ??

I caught an article on the decline of the first world because of the lack of population...the jury is still out on it I believe. I agree with their numbers on declining birthrates, but not necessarily on the world being depopulated.....poor 3rd world countries will make up the difference fast with their insurance kids which is common place.

http://pop.org/content/demographics-grim-reaper

Monday, August 20, 2012

Burn Victim 90% - World Record Survivor Photo Story

http://www.survivorshope.org/home.html

American Burn Victim Society
http://www.ameriburn.org/

Skin Gun Therapy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI

Sunday, August 19, 2012

ER Advice #2

5 Secrets for a Successful ER Visit

No one plans to spend the holidays in the emergency room. But should you end up there, you can get taken care of quickly if you know what to do.

BY MEGAN OTHERSEN GORMAN

Do yourself a favor...make sure she finds out everything she needs to know.

RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's a catch-22: You head to the ER when you need care immediately, yet an emergency room visit is typically anything but fast. In fact, wait times in emergency rooms across the country are rising as they're crowded with people without health insurance who are forced to use hospital facilities for nonemergent health concerns. That said, there are strategies that you can follow that not only speed up your emergency room visit, but also help you get better, more informed care while you're there. And with so many holiday safety hazards around, now's a good time to familiarize yourself with them.

Here are five ways to ensure you get the fastest, most informed ER care during an emergency room visit.

#1: Carry a card with all your relevant health info on it. In the event of an emergency-room visit, you can use your card to fully apprise the medical staff of your health status, and you won't have to worry about forgetting something during a stressful or upsetting time. Here's what Melissa Barton, MD, program director for the Wayne State University/Sinai-Grace Hospital emergency medicine residency program in Detroit and spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians, recommends including on that card: your current medical problems (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or sickle-cell anemia); any allergies; and any medications you're taking, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs as well as herbal supplements. That includes Viagra and other medications for erectile dysfunction. "Many times, men are embarrassed to mention these, especially if in front of people at a triage area," says Dr. Barton. "But not mentioning these medications could cause serious harm to the patient due to drug interactions."

Additional info to include: your doctor's name and telephone number, contact information for a closest relative or someone who can make decisions if you're unable to; and, if applicable, any religious affiliations that would prevent you from receiving blood products or other procedures even in an emergency situation.

# 2: Tell the triage personnel immediately if you have chest pain, difficulty breathing, have trouble seeing or talking and/or have weakness in an arm or leg. You need to be assessed ASAP, says Dr. Barton—not after the gunshot victim, but immediately. Be polite and specific in your descriptions of your symptoms, but also be persistent.

# 3: Be honest. An emergency-room visit is no time for coyness. "There's no reason to be embarrassed and trying to hide information may cause us to search for a problem that doesn't exist or miss something very important," says Dr. Barton. Believe it, the ER team has seen and heard it all, and they're not interested in passing judgment. "If you haven't been taking your blood pressure medicine, tell us," says Dr. Barton. "If you used illicit drugs just before you started having trouble breathing, tell us. Likewise, if you've had the problem before, tell us." Were you given a diagnosis? Did the treatment work or not work? Don't make the doctors start from scratch if you have any inkling as to what may be going on, or what may have contributed to your symptoms.

# 4: Bring an advocate. If possible, bring someone to the hospital with you who can advocate for your care, or call someone to come and be with you, says Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That person can bring full attention to bear not only on understanding what your doctors are telling you but also on making sure your case doesn't get lost in the shuffle. "There's a constant triage going on in the ER," says Dr. Clancy, "and occasionally, if you're very quiet, you get shunted to the back of the line." Your advocate can make sure you're not forgotten.

# 5: Ask about prescription costs. "One of the best ways to avoid a second time-consuming trip to the ER is to take your prescriptions as directed," says Dr. Barton. Have no prescription coverage? Tell your ER doctor. "There are nearly always cheaper, alternative medications that we can prescribe," says Dr. Barton. "I wouldn't spend $100 on a medication, nor would I expect you to." If you get to the pharmacy and your insurance will not cover the medicine, don't leave the pharmacy. Tell the pharmacist to call the ER while you wait and have your doctor change your prescription over the phone. "We don't want you to have to come back to the ER for failing to take your meds," adds Dr. Barton. "I'm sure you'll feel exactly the same way."

# 6: There are free clinics in most cities/counties. Ask the ER staff for referrals to free or discount clinics in your city or town. Many will only charge you based on your income, you might even get free care if you are desperate and simple fill out some forms showing your low income. The ER staff and free clinic staff dont care if you dont have money.....that see it ALL THE TIME. You are not the first one they seen with no cash and big health problems.....ASK THEM.

ER Visit Secrets and Common Sense Advice

35 More Secrets the ER Staff Won’t Tell You

“Something as simple as knowing how to apply pressure to stop or slow bleeding can save a life,” says Marni Bonnin, MD, an ER doctor in Birmingham, Alabama.

By Ginny Graves from Reader's Digest | March 2010

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Plus: 15 Secrets the ER Staff Won’t Tell You

THE 411 ON 911 1. “Denial kills people. Yes, you could be having a heart attack or a stroke, even if you’re only 39 or in good shape or a vegetarian.” —Dennis Rowe, paramedic, Knoxville, Tennessee

2. “Don’t call us for a broken finger. If there’s no real emergency, you’ve just clogged up the system.” —Arthur Hsieh, paramedic, San Francisco

3. “Your emergency isn’t necessarily our emergency. In my region, we send an ambulance for all calls, but we don’t use the sirens unless it’s Code 1, which means someone’s bleeding or having chest pain or shortness of breath—basically things you could die from in the next five minutes.” —Connie Meyer, RN, paramedic, Olathe, Kansas

4. “Don’t hang up after you tell us what’s wrong. The operator may be trained to give you instructions in CPR and other medical procedures that could be lifesaving.” —Dennis Rowe, paramedic

AN AMBULANCE ISN’T A FANCY TAXI 5. “In a true emergency, we’re not going to drive 30 miles to the hospital that takes your insurance when there’s a good one two miles away. But if there are many ERs near you, know which one you prefer because we might ask. Find out where your doctor practices, where the nearest trauma center is, and which hospital has the best cardiac center.” —Connie Meyer, RN, paramedic

6. “In most cases, we can’t transport someone who doesn’t want to go. Uncle Eddie may be as sick as a dog, but if he says he doesn’t want to get in an ambulance, we need to respect his wishes.” —Arthur Hsieh, paramedic

7. “If the patient is stable, and 97 percent are, there’s no reason to drive 60 miles an hour on city streets. Have you ever tried to put an IV into someone’s arm in the back of a speeding ambulance?” —Don Lundy, paramedic

YES, WE KNOW YOU’RE WAITING … AND WAITING 8. “We hate it too! But don’t be angry at us. If you’re waiting, there’s one reason: We’re out of beds.” —Jeri Babb, RN, Des Moines, Iowa

9. “The busiest time starts around 6 p.m.; Mondays are the worst. We’re slowest from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. If you have a choice, come early in the morning.” —Denise King, RN, Riverside, California

10. “People who are vomiting their guts out get a room more quickly. The admitting clerks don’t like vomit in the waiting area.” —Joan Somes, RN, St. Paul, Minnesota

11. “We like the rapid turnover, so we don’t want you stuck in the ER while you’re waiting to be admitted. If we wanted to care for the same patient for hours at a time, we would work on an in-patient ward.” —Denise King, RN

12. “Never tell an ER nurse, ‘All I have is this cut on my finger. Why can’t someone just look at it?’ That just shows you have no idea how the ER actually works.” —Dana Hawkins, RN, Tulsa, Oklahoma

13. “Don’t blame ER overcrowding on the uninsured. They account for 17 percent of visits. The underlying problem is hospital overcrowding in general.” —Leora Horwitz, MD, assistant professor, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

WE NEED YOU TO COOPERATE 14. “We don’t have time to read the background on every patient. So if you’re having stomach pain, and you’ve had your appendix or gallbladder removed, tell us so we don’t go on a wild-goose chase.” —Dana Hawkins, RN

15. “Be honest about whatever happened. Don’t be a hypochondriac, and don’t answer yes to every question. It will only screw up your care.” —Emergency medical technician, Middlebury, Vermont

16. “I once had a patient say he didn’t take any medications. Later he mentioned he was diabetic. I looked at him and asked, ‘Do you take insulin?’ He said yes. Well, that’s medicine.” —Allen Roberts, MD

17. “If you haven’t had your child immunized, admit it. That’s important information for us to have.” —Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, emergency physician, Torrance, California

18. “Some ERs don’t allow more than one visitor per patient for a reason: You get in our way. Nominate someone to be in the ER and have that person relay information to everyone else in the waiting room.” —Donna Mason, RN, ER consultant, Nashville, Tennessee

19. “Tell us about any herbal treatments you’re taking. I treated a young man who had put aseptil rojo on some abrasions. It turned his urine red—but we didn’t find the cause until after we’d done a lengthy workup.” —Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD

20. “It’s not uncommon that I get a patient who refuses to have the tests I recommend. I had a volatile conversation with a family who didn’t believe in medicine. What did you expect in the ER?” —Joan Shook, MD, emergency physician, Houston, Texas

WE DON’T BELIEVE YOU 21. “Never, ever lie to your ER nurse. Their BS detectors are excellent, and you lose all credibility when you lie.” —Allen Roberts, MD

22. “Some of us are pretty good at spotting people who come in to score pain medication—especially if you’re specific about the drug you want or you don’t look like you’re in that much pain but you drove an hour from your home to get there.” —Denise King, RN

23. “We hear all kinds of weird stuff. I had a woman who came in at 3 a.m. and said she’d passed out while she was asleep.” —Emergency physician, suburban Northeast

WE PLAY FAVORITES 24. “Get rid of your entitlement mentality. It’s bad in your general life but really bad in the ER. We’ll treat you, but we might not be nice.” —Allen Roberts, MD

25. “Your complaints about your prior doctor will not endear you to us. The more you say, the less we want to deal with you.” —Allen Roberts, MD

26. “If you come in with a bizarre or disgusting symptom, we’re going to talk about you. We won’t talk about you to people outside the ER, but doctors and nurses need to vent, just like everyone else.” —Emergency physician, suburban Northeast

WE CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH 27. “If you come into the ER with a virus, don’t get mad if we can’t tell you exactly what it is. If we’ve ruled out any serious problems, you’re going to have to follow up with your primary care doctor.” —Jeri Babb, RN

28. “We really don’t have anything to offer the person who comes to the ER with cold symptoms that have lasted a day or two. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.” —Emergency physician, suburban Northeast

29. “It’s common to see families who have overmedicated their kids with asthma medication. You can’t just give your children two or three times as much as they’ve been prescribed.” —Joan Shook, MD

30. “Because so many hospitals are overwhelmed, we may not be able to unload the ambulance as soon as we get there. We’ll stay with you until we can hand you off to the nurses. We do the best we can with a bad situation.” —Connie Meyer, RN, paramedic

31. “No, I don’t know what your insurance covers.” —Allen Roberts, MD

SPEAK UP, PLEASE 32. “If your doctor sends you to the ER so you can be admitted to the hospital, ask him to send the orders to the hospital instead. It’s more paperwork for him but could be quicker for you. And it doesn’t jam up the ER with nonemergency patients.” —Denise King, RN

33. “Some patients withhold information they’ve already received from their primary care physician just to see if we come up with the same diagnosis or treatment. Don’t. All you’re doing is slowing us down.” —Joan Shook, MD

SAY THANK YOU 34. “Some people have no clue how close they came to dying before being saved by emergency interventions. I’ve seen serious stroke, heart attack, and trauma patients lead normal lives after events that should have killed them. If only they knew.” —Ramon Johnson, MD, emergency physician, Mission Viejo, California

35. “ER staffs are pretty good at zebra hunting—recognizing an unusual diagnosis—because we’re looking at your symptoms with fresh eyes. We’ve diagnosed cancer and brain tumors in the ER.” —Joan Somes, RN

ER VITALS • Average cost of an ER visit: $707 • Number of visits to U.S. emergency rooms in 2007: 117 million • Increase in the number of ER visits from 1996 to 2006: 32% • Average time spent in the ER: 2 hours, 40 minutes • Number of ambulances per year that are diverted to a different hospital due to lack of staff and space: 500,000

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY • Bring someone with you, or have someone meet you there. • Check the heart attack and pneumonia success rates of the ERs near you athospitalcompare.hhs.gov. • Make a list and carry with you at all times: your doctors’ names and phone numbers, medications you take, food and drug allergies, a short medical history, phone number of a relative or friend to call in an emergency (find a form online at medIDs.com). • Enter your emergency contact into your cell phone too. • Make sure your house number is clearly visible from the street. The faster EMTs can find you, the faster they can help you. —Becky Batcha

14 REASONS TO GET TO THE ER • Loss of consciousness • Chest or severe abdominal pain• Sudden weakness or numbness in face, arm, or leg • Sudden changes in vision • Difficulty speaking • Severe shortness of breath • Bleeding that doesn’t stop after ten minutes of direct pressure • Any sudden, severe pain • Major injury, such as a head trauma • Unexplained confusion or disorientation • Severe or persistent vomiting or diarrhea • Coughing or vomiting blood • A severe or worsening reaction to an insect bite, food, or medication • Suicidal feelings

HELP YOURSELF: LEARN FIRST AID “Something as simple as knowing how to apply pressure to stop or slow bleeding can save a life,” says Marni Bonnin, MD, an ER doctor in Birmingham, Alabama. To keep handy: the American College of Emergency Physicians’ newly updated First Aid Manual ($14.95; acep.org).

1. “People call 911 for the wrong things all the time. They wait too long to call—or don’t call at all—when they’re having a heart attack or stroke and we could actually save their lives. But they don’t hesitate to call for non-life-threatening things. I once had a guy call who turned out to have a hangnail.”

-Connie Meyer, RN, paramedic, Olathe, Kansas

2. “Even though we go on 20 calls a day, we try to remind ourselves that calling 911 may be a sentinel event in your life. We’re not Dr. Phil, but we do try to be reassuring.”
-Anthony Kastros, fire department battalion chief, Sacramento, California

3. “The 911 system was designed to help people in an emergency—not as a social agency or friend.”
-Don Lundy, paramedic, Charleston County, South Carolina

4. “I’m amazed at how many parents are reluctant to administer any first aid. If your child has a cut, apply pressure.”
-Joan Shook, MD, emergency physician, Houston, Texas

5. “Just because you told the triage nurse your problem doesn’t mean the doctor in the ER knows why you’re there. Be prepared to tell your story several times.”
-Linda Lawrence, MD, emergency physician, San Antonio, Texas

6. “I’ve had patients come in and say, ‘I haven’t been breathing well since yesterday.’ I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, really? Why didn’t you come in sooner?”
-Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, emergency physician, Torrance, California

7. “If three of your relatives are with you, only one of them needs to tell the story of your illness. I realize it’s validating for everyone to tell their version of events, but I’m not here to validate you.”
-Allen Roberts, MD, emergency physician, Fort Worth, Texas

8. “A classic way a doctor-patient interaction can get off on the wrong foot is if a patient comes to the ER to get antibiotics. Most infections are viral, so they don’t respond to antibiotics. If we say you don’t need them, don’t argue.”
-David Newman, MD, director of clinical research, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York City

9. We had an injured woman in our ER who said indignantly, ‘Do you know who I work for?’ In unison, all six of us who were treating her said, ‘No, and we don’t care.’”
-Allen Roberts, MD

10. “People are all up in arms about universal healthcare. Well, guess what: Those of us working in the trenches have been providing universal healthcare for years.”
-Arthur Hsieh, paramedic, San Francisco

Bio-Impedence : instant secure password

https://www.usenix.org/conference/healthsec12/who-wears-me-bioimpedance-passive-biometric

Who Wears Me? Bioimpedance as a Passive Biometric

Mobile and wearable systems for monitoring health are becoming common. If such an mHealth system knows the identity of its wearer, the system can properly label and store data collected by the system. Existing recognition schemes for such mobile applications and pervasive devices are not particularly usable – they require active engagement with the person (e.g., the input of passwords), or they are too easy to fool (e.g., they depend on the presence of a device that is easily stolen or lost).

We present a wearable sensor to passively recognize people. Our sensor uses the unique electrical properties of a person’s body to recognize their identity. More specifically, the sensor uses bioimpedance – a measure of how the body’s tissues oppose a tiny applied alternating current – and learns how a person’s body uniquely responds to alternating current of different frequencies. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of our system by showing its effectiveness at accurately recognizing people in a household 90% of the time.

Conference:

HealthSec '12

Cory Cornelius, Jacob Sorber, Ronald Peterson, Joe Skinner, Ryan Halter, and David Kotz, Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College

Cornelius PDF

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DNA storage -Terabyte Scale

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

By Sebastian Anthony on August 17, 2012 at 10:22 am
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DNA strand, over a page of TGAC base pairs

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A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.

The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).

To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it — just as if you were sequencing the human genome — and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary. To aid with sequencing, each strand of DNA has a 19-bit address block at the start (the red bits in the image below) — so a whole vat of DNA can be sequenced out of order, and then sorted into usable data using the addresses.

Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time, for three very good reasons: It’s incredibly dense (you can store one bit per base, and a base is only a few atoms large); it’s volumetric (beaker) rather than planar (hard disk); and it’s incredibly stable — where other bleeding-edge storage mediums need to be kept in sub-zero vacuums, DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.

It is only with recent advances in microfluidics and labs-on-a-chip that synthesizing and sequencing DNA has become an everyday task, though. While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with microfluidic chips can do it in hours. Now this isn’t to say that Church and Kosuri’s DNA storage is fast — but it’s fast enough for very-long-term archival.

Just think about it for a moment: One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you’d need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos. In Church and Kosuri’s case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA — Church’s latest book, in fact — and proceeded to make 70 billion copies (which they claim, jokingly, makes it the best-selling book of all time!) totaling 44 petabytes of data stored.

Looking forward, they foresee a world where biological storage would allow us to record anything and everything without reservation. Today, we wouldn’t dream of blanketing every square meter of Earth with cameras, and recording every moment for all eternity/human posterity — we simply don’t have the storage capacity. There is a reason that backed up data is usually only kept for a few weeks or months — it just isn’t feasible to have warehouses full of hard drives, which could fail at any time. If the entirety of human knowledge — every book, uttered word, and funny cat video — can be stored in a few hundred kilos of DNA, though… well, it might just be possible to record everything (hello, police state!)

It’s also worth noting that it’s possible to store data in the DNA of living cells — though only for a short time. Storing data in your skin would be a fantastic way of transferring data securely…

Read: Biological computer can decrypt images stored in DNA, Living organ-on-a-chip could soon replace animal testing

Friday, August 17, 2012

Body Positions in Medicine

http://www.medtrng.com/posturesdirection.htm

Postures and Direction of Movement

Supine: Someone in the supine position is lying on his or her back.
Prone: Someone in the prone position is lying face down.

Right Lateral Recumbent: The Right lateral recumbent, or RLR, means that the patient is lying on their right side.
Left Lateral Recumbent: The left lateral recumbent, or LLR, means that the patient is lying on their left side.

Fowler's Position: A person in the Fowler's position is sitting straight up or leaning slightly back. Their legs may either be straight or bent.
Trendelenberg Position: A person in the Trendelenberg position is lying supine with their head slightly lower than their feet.

Abduction: Abduction is movement away from the midline, or to abduct.
Adduction: Adduction is movement toward the midline, or to add.

Flexion: Flexion is to bend at a joint, or to reduce the angle.
Extension: Extension is to straighten at a joint, or to increase the angle, for example, from 90 degrees to 180 degrees.

Medial Rotation: Medial rotation is to turn inward.
Lateral Rotation: Lateral rotation is to turn outward.

Supination: Supination is to rotate the forearm so that the palm faces forward.
Pronation: Pronation is to rotate the forearm so that the palm faces backward.

EMT Training- Severe Car Crash : Flipped Over -Extraction with Jaws of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4D3_lL4RUo&feature=related

Surgical Nerve Monitor- for Da Vinci Surgical Combo

http://www.propepsurgical.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=intuitive-us

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Olympic Marathoners Diet: cornmeal goo

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/12/158568459/on-the-road-to-olympic-gold-kenyan-marathoners-fuel-up-on-carbs

Toilet Reinvented: a big deal !!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/08/158447235/why-is-the-worlds-largest-foundation-buying-fake-poop?ec=shots&ps=storycategory

Video on Super Toilet Tech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVQaMsvBLb8&feature=plcp%20

Gonorhrea..down to one antibiotic drug left to combat it.

Very common STD becoming resistant in USA.

www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/10/158464908/gonorrhea-evades-antibiotics-leaving-only-one-drug-to-treat-disease?ec=shots%2F

Friday, August 10, 2012

Eye: Rust Ring Removal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=1PiAPWIF7yk&NR=1

Popping a Nose into place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOO7DUHIxAw&feature=related

Popping Bones Back Into Place

Pooping Back a Shoulder Dislocation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLEklCEKyx4&feature=related

Popping Back an Elbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=FElcYZ3YT8o

Popping a Jaw in place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zm7ev8LUAA&feature=related

Popping a Finger into place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=hrd1cairk4Y

Severe HemoPneumothorax: Blood in Lungs-Draining it

HemoPneumoThorax: Bloody Lung Drainage (at Harborview, Seattle, WA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=noDxydboLrA&NR=1

Africa: Severe PneumoThorax - (the worst video I've ever seen of one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZ4pfpLI9k&feature=related

Full Body Plastination/Autopsy Series: Dr. Gunther von Hagens

Dr. Hagens has created one of the best human anatomy exhibitions in the entire world. He does it to educate the public on the amazing human body. This TV series shows the process he uses to make his exhibits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=i4ibBypxIRI

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Monday, August 6, 2012

Stem Cell Trachea Survivor going strong

http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/29/boy-who-received-stem-cell-trachea-implant-doing-well-after-two-years/

Crowd Funding Research...good trend

http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/30/4-year-olds-missing-gene-discovered-through-crowdfunded-sequencing/

Augmented Reality gone bad!!..= (DISTRACTED REALITY)

Please dont let augmented reality become like this !!

Absolutely horrid use of Augesnted Reality gone bad....more like "DISTRACTED REALITY" below. This is the reality if people start failing to think for themselves and rely on machines to think for them.

Some people think will be a great day...I call it THE COMING OF DISTRACTED REALITY. The video below is an example of totally useless information being spooooon fed into the visual mind so that lazy people can be look educated instead actually doing the mental work to buff up on the learning curve. The Fradulent Expert...as I call it.

My Hope for AR:
What I really want to see and hope is coming are highly specialized personal environments that companies custom build and sell as WORK and PLAY spaces for different situations that user can switch to at their choosing.

Cons:
The era of continuous Pop-Ups gets old really fast (completely based on advertising....I happy to pay for premium content to get stupid and distracting advertising.....remember this On-Eye contact is an advertisers dream if they can just a piece of the visual real estate to get inside your head). The precious visual space that we have left needs regularity to function within one's own head, without the constant bombardment of spoon fed none sense or ads. In addition, I cant stand everything becoming a game environment, where people are completely distracted to the real world around them.....that just sucks and tells people are bored with their lives in the first place, no engaged at all. The whole idea of a GAME LIFE is stupid. Some may love it, but they are mentally disengaging from reality. This is very disturbing as a cultural trend. If people disengaged, then they are easily controlled and you can put them in a corner and blip virtual images all day into their feeble heads all day in a passive state of compliance.....think the the movie MATRIX....reality vs. virtual reality......it doesn't work people. BEWARE

Things I do like about Future-Eye Bionics:

-Medical Emergency Vital Sign Overlays
-Technique Overlays-knife cutting,
-Biometric feedback helpers-body language monitoring (lean angles, facial twitch muscular sensation
-Therma feedback monitoring: very useful for medical and athletic performance monitoring, sexual arousal also(flushing reflex)
-Biofeedback-relaxation monitoring, skin electrostatic looping for continuous relaxation drills when needed
-Medication reminders-
-Motor vehicle Driving assistance....(HUD) Heads Up Display Navigation....these eye prosthetic contacts will likely be cheaper than a whole driving system, so they may gain market share in that arena. I know I'd like something like this here....I hate using traditional Navigation that takes my eyes off the road....I want it overlaid on the road itself using a HUD display. I really want to see the first FULL DASHBOARD THIN FILM DISPLAYS and LONG FIELD PROJECTOR HUD DISPLAYS FOR CARS....specifically NAVIGATION.....all the other smart phone features can be disabled for safety so people can focus on the road.

Cons:
-Distration Reality
-Stupid Info overload
-In-head commercials (Advertisers getting their grimmy hands on my visual space...I cant stand this!! Keep it clean....If something is free, beware..it isn't...you are giving something up in return to a corporation!...sucker punch)
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Watch the video below:

http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/31/bionic-vision-%E2%80%9Csight%E2%80%9D-short-movie-explores-the-coming-future-of-augmented-reality/

Suturing 8 techniques

Watch "8 Common Suture Techniques for Skin Closure" on YouTube

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Motorbike Medics: Lesotho Africa

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2012/08/20128581349779766.html

Cryotherapy -wide sportsmans use

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Olympic Athletes: super cold-cryotherapy for cellular recovery

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Be Afraid and Do it Anyway....this is awesome

Eric the Eel' dreams of Olympic return

By James Montague, CNN

updated 9:00 AM EDT, Tue July 31, 2012

"Eric the Eel" became something of an Olympic hero when he swam at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. His time of one minute 52.72 seconds in the 100 meters freestyle was the worst in Olympic history.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

CNN talks to Eric Moussambani, better known as "Eric the Eel"
Equatorial Guinea athlete became a worldwide celebrity for the worst swim ever
He finished 100 meters freestyle heat at Sydney 2000 in double the world record time
Now 34, Moussambani is hoping to return to the Olympics at Rio in 2016

(CNN) -- The English commentator veered from disbelief to anger and then, finally, to mirth.

It was the opening heat of the men's 100 meters freestyle swimming at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, but only one man was standing on his block: Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea, a tiny, oil-rich state in west Africa.

There had been two other swimmers to compete with -- one from Niger, the other from Tajikistan -- but both had jumped the gun, dived in to the pool and been disqualified.

The crowd cheered, the gun fired and the 22-year-old dived in.

Suddenly he was on his own.

What followed was one of the most memorable two minutes in Olympic history, one that would embody something far away from the podiums that honor the motto of the modern Games: "Faster, higher, stronger."

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During the first 50 meters Moussambani appeared to be holding his own, but by the turn things had gone very wrong. At one point he appeared to stop, treading water to catch his breath before continuing.

"This guy," remarked the commentator for British TV, who was none other than Adrian Moorhouse, gold medalist in the same discipline at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, "he's not going to make it ... I'm convinced this guy is going to have to get hold of the rope in a minute."

'Me against the swimming pool'

Looking back today, Eric Moussambani is hard pressed to disagree with him.

"It was me against the swimming pool," he recalls with a laugh.

"I didn't care about anything else, I just wanted to finish the race ... When I went to Australia that was the first time I had seen an Olympic swimming pool. I was scared of the dimensions."

Somehow he managed to crawl to the end, posting a time of one minute 52.72 seconds. The man who would eventually win gold in the event, Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands, would finish the final in 48.30 seconds,

His swim made him an instant star of the Sydney Olympics -- dubbed "Eric the Eel" by the world's media -- and lampooned around the world for posting the worst time in the history of the sport. But it also reminded the world that there's far more to the Olympic spirit than just victory.

A voice on the radio

Moussambani didn't start out as a swimmer. Growing up in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, he excelled at soccer and basketball. But one day, three months before the start of the Sydney Olympics, he heard an advert on the radio with an intriguing offer.

"I heard on the radio that they (the Equatorial Guinea National Olympic Committee) needed swimmers, so I went and put my name down," he recalls.

He may not have wanted to be an Olympic swimmer but, having practiced in a local river, Moussambani decided to give it a shot. When he arrived at the hotel in Malabo where the trial was to take place, he soon discovered that the competition was nonexistent.

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"We were called for the selection, and I was the only person who was there!" he says.

"So nobody came. For two hours we were waiting. I was the only one. That was in the only hotel that had a pool, a 12-meter swimming pool. They told me to get in and asked if I could swim."

After proving that he could swim, Moussambani was told that he would be heading to Sydney after securing a place on the Equatorial Guinea Olympic team, a place that had been gifted by the International Olympic Committee's wildcard system that gave less developed nations a chance to send athletes to the Games to gain experience.

"They just told me to get my passport and a picture ready so they could send me to the Olympics. They said to me, 'Keep on training.' I asked them, 'With who? I don't have a trainer.' They said: 'Do what you can. Keep training because you are going to the Olympics.' "

Preparations were tough for Moussambani. There was no Olympic-sized pool in Equatorial Guinea and the hotel pool was only of limited use. Still, he left for Australia for the first time knowing that, if nothing else, it would be an adventure.

"The Olympic Games was something unknown for me," he says.

"I was just happy that I was going to travel abroad and represent my country. It was new for me. It was very far from Africa."

The terror of the pool

It wasn't until he turned up for training on the first day that he saw an Olympic-sized swimming pool for the first time. Reality quickly dawned on him.

"When I arrived I just went to the swimming pool to see how it is. I was very surprised, I did not imagine that it would be so big," he says.

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"My training schedule there was with the American swimmers. I was going to the pool and watching them, how they trained and how they dived because I didn't have any idea. I copied them. I had to know how to dive, how to move my legs, how to move my hands.

"I learned everything in Sydney. I didn't know how to dive, anything. While they (the U.S. swim team) were training I was watching them. I was alone. I didn't have a coach."

When the day of the race arrived, Moussambani sat in his seat with his goggles on, going through everything he had learned from the American swimmers.

"I was just thinking, 'Do whatever you think you can do.' I was thinking how the American swimmers were training," he explains. But when his two competitors were disqualified for two false starts, Moussambani suddenly felt very alone.

"At first I was thinking that I was the one who was disqualified!" he laughs.

"They told me I was the only one that was going to swim, so I was very nervous. Everybody was screaming: 'Go go go!' "

Out on a limb

Most athletes can only a recall a blur of memories when remembering their time at the Olympics, but Moussambani remembers every second of that race: the pain, the fear, the exhaustion and finally the relief.

"The first 50 meters I did very well. I did it with a lot of energy. When I was coming back to complete the 100 meters I was exhausted. If you watch the video, I couldn't feel my legs. I was feeling like I wasn't going to go any further. I was moving in just one place.

"The crowd was singing, 'Go go go go!' So I did my best to complete it. But once I completed it I was exhausted. I thought, 'Phew, my god!' All my muscles were tired. So when I went in to the changing room I just collapsed on the floor and lay there. I couldn't even breathe."

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It is unlikely that any swimmer will ever get close to Moussambani's time, which is more than a minute slower than the women's 100m record and not even as quick as the best men's 200m effort. But once he picked himself up off the changing room floor he had become a worldwide celebrity.

"The media attention was, phew..." he remembers.

"Everyone in the media was asking about me. Oh, where's Eric the Eel? I didn't know how to speak English back then. People were saying I was a star. But I didn't know what to do. A lot of people were making fun of me, others were congratulating me.

"But what they didn't understand was that it was my first time in a swimming pool. People were making fun of me. But some said you are a good example of the Olympic spirit."

While most people saw the true values of the Olympic movement in Moussambani's Quixotic swim at Sydney -- heart, determination, a never-say-die spirit -- his performance sparked much hand-wringing elsewhere. Elite athletes were offended that more talented swimmers were denied a place at the Olympics to accommodate developmental athletes.

As Moorhouse said in a later interview: "It was quite a defining moment for the Olympic Games as to whether that level of performance should be in Olympic competition."

The end of Eric the Eel?

Sure enough the International Olympic Committee tightened up the rules on wildcard entries to prevent other "Eric the Eels" from turning up. But they still slip through the net. Only this week Hamadou Djibo Issaka, a rower from Niger, was hailed as the "new Eric the Eel" after finishing 100 seconds behind his nearest rival in the men's single sculls repechage.

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Britain's five-time Olympic gold medalist Steve Redgrave criticized the decision to allow Issaka to compete. "There are better scullers from different countries who are not allowed to compete because of the different countries you've got," he said.

Yet it was Issaka, and not the winner, who was roared across the finishing line. Likewise with Moussambani. Few outside of the swimming world will remember Sydney champion Van den Hoogenband, but "Eric the Eel" has become an Olympic euphemism. "They even took my trunks to display in an Olympic museum in Sydney," he happily boasts.

An outside bet for Rio 2016?

But if swimming development was a key aim of the IOC's decision to give Equatorial Guinea a wildcard at the Sydney Games, then the move can be seen as a roaring success.

After the cameras left, Moussambani continued to swim. His last competition was the World Championships in Japan in 2002 and his times have steadily improved. And although he didn't make it to Athens four years later, nor Beijing, he is now the national swimming coach of Equatorial Guinea and hopes to still have one last shot at next Olympics in Rio in 2016 before he retires.

"My last time was 55 seconds, that was only last year," the 34-year-old explains hopefully.

"Right now I'm the coach of the country but I've asked my Olympic federation if I can swim at the next Olympics.

"I still have a dream. I want to show people that my times have improved, that we have swimming pools in my country now and that I can now swim a hundred meters."