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Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries
Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries Over the last 5 years, drones have become a very popular toy. This is, in no small part, due to their ease of use and their highly-accessible price structure. With this in mind, the potential for using them as a delivery/postal service…
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Google Glasses Used To Help Children With Autism
Google Glasses Used To Help Children With Autism Since Google launched their updated design for their glasses last year, we haven’t heard much about them. It seems that the technology that was going to take the world by storm has simply not taken off. Some have even gone so far…
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Dead Peoples Medical Records Found For Sale On Dark Web
Dead Peoples Medical Records Found For Sale On Dark Web The dark web is a pretty scary place. Largely the home of purely illegal material on the internet, it is shocking what you can buy and do on there. We saw literally on the last few days how super secret…
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New Blood Test May Be Able To Predict Your Death
New Blood Test May Be Able To Predict Your Death As we don’t live in the world of Logan’s Run, for most of us, the predictability of our death isn’t that clear. A new type of blood test, however, may have just made our planned mortality a little more clear…
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First NHS Funded Gaming Addition Centre To Open In The UK
UK’s First NHS Funded Gaming Treatment Center To Open A little over a week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially recognised gaming addiction as a medical condition. The addition to their categorisation was originally proposed back in December 2017 and as of last week, it is now an officially…
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Scientists Claim Cannabis Can Stop Stress If Used Correctly
Unique Cannabis research proposes specific types for specific problems I think there are very few amongst us who would disagree that Cannabis has a lot of potentials when it comes to the medical field. Admittedly, there are others who also just see the potential in temporarily leaving the planet to…
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China Begins Using VR for Drug Rehabilitation Programs
The Shanghai Drug Rehabilitation Administration has announced that they have now begun using virtual reality to treat addicts. Its use is not gaming or entertainment however. The users wear a VR headset with an eye-movement tracking and heart rate monitor for recording purposes. Along with skin conductivity and other biological…
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Smart Bandage Can Detect Wound Condition and Transmit Information Wirelessly
Swansea University’s Institute of Life Science is leading the development of a smart bandage that can detect how a wound is healing and report back its condition via real-time 5G technology. This allows doctors to monitor the wound without removing the dressing and re-applying the bandage. Plus, since it can…
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Man Who Received a Double Hand Transplant Writes Letter of Thanks to Doctors
The first person to have a double hand transplant has written a letter of thanks to the doctors who made it possible. Chris King, the recipient of the transplant, is now able to write letters, hold a cup of tea and form a fist. Things he thought would be impossible…
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Toyota Develops Robot Legs to Assist Stroke Victims
Toyota has announced that it will begin ‘renting’ robotic legs to 100 medical centres in Japan later this year in order to help assist the elderly. BBC news reports that the Welwalk WW-1000 has been designed to help assist people with mobility issues, particularly those with a weakness in 1 leg…
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Doctors Reverse Severe MS With Stem Cells
We’ve heard of a lot of issues and illnesses being helped and supported by science and technology. From being able to make new organs, either by growing them or 3D printing them, to using mechanical trousers and exoskeletons to help people walk, science and technology have helped thousands. Now it…
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CareSkore Spending Millions on Machine Learning
CareSkore is something which many have come across, although few know they have even seen it. CareSkore’s system is often used on Facebook quizzes to tell you just how long you’ll have to live, often with rather rare and unique ways such as being squashed by a piano being the…
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Medicine Powered by Bioelectric Technology Backed by Google
When it comes to medicines, science is going further and further in hand with technology in order to help and develop entirely new lengths in previously unexplored areas. Google is looking to team up with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British pharmaceutical giant who is looking at using bioelectric technology to research a…
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DARPA Fund Bioreactor That Creates Vaccines On-Demand
Think of those multi-color retractable pens that you’ve used for years, now imagine if someone was to take out the ink and instead dispenses something a little different. Imagine if instead of red, black, green and blue ink you could get different medicines on the go. Thanks to a new design…
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Smart Stitches Tell You How Much You’ve Healed
When it comes to technology and medicine they go hand in hand. From the concept of being able to heal people from the inside out to giving people the ability to walk again, the latest piece of technology comes in the form of smart stitches. The new stitches come from…
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