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Top 10 Inventions In The Field Of Healthcare

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 09:10 PM PST

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When it comes to recent advancements in the medical field, most people start thinking nanotechnology. Who can blame them considering that nano is presented as the ultimate solution in dealing with an impressive array of diseases that were previously considered incurable? However, until the point when nano tech emerges to abolish all disease on Earth, we will have to put our faith and trust in the current healthcare innovations, which are actually impressive and provide effective solutions for various medical conditions and issues, as you are about to find out.

 

1. Truvada

Truvada

Although it does not qualify as a cure, the FDA approval on the Truvada medicine certainly constitutes a big step in the war against the most devastating disease on the planet, AIDS. The Truvada pills have been prescribed to patients tested HIV positive from 2004, but with inconclusive results. Only recently, when physicians started testing them on HIV-negative patients did these pills show their huge potential. To put it simply, their two active ingredients proved very effective in stopping HIV from spreading and, according to research, had a 70% rate of success.

 

2. MobiUS ultrasound system

MobiUS ultrasound system

As you might have guessed from its name, the MobiUS is designed to address patients with medical emergencies who are unable to see a physician for various reasons, such as being located in a remote area or in a disaster zone. The device is created to send offline feedback directly onto a physician’s computer, images and data that can be decrypted and analyzed via an ultrasound wand to detect life-threatening issues. It is necessary to mention that while there is no denying the fact that MobiUS has the potential of saving numerous lives, physicians should receive training on how to read the images produced by the device.

 

3. Artificial heart valve

Artificial heart valve

Claiming the lives of over 1.5 million people per year, heart attack can classify as one of the deadliest conditions in the Western World. Not only is it leading the top of deaths, but unfortunately a great percentage of patients do not qualify for a surgical intervention that could save their lives. The artificial heart valve designed by Edwards Lifesciences represents a solution for patients who are too frail to survive a heart surgery.

 

4. AxoTrack

AxoTrack

Because inserting a catheter implies a great deal of precision, in the past several years physicians have employed the help of ultrasound for this purpose. Even though ultrasound has reduced the chance of making a mistake that could put the patient’s life at risk, the problem with it is that it cannot detect a needle as accurately as doctors want. Their pleas were heard and today physicians can use AxoTrack for a rate of 99% safe insertion of catheters.

 

5. An ingested pill health-feedback system

ingested pill health-feedback system

Even though it will take approximately two more years before it enters the production phase, the pill health-feedback system already looks promising. Developed by Proteus Digital, the main function of the pill is to help physicians gain relevant feedback regarding their patients and track the results of the treatments. It is necessary to mention that the system is simple and ingenious, considering that the patient will have to ingest a pill that will afterwards send binary signals to a patch placed on the patient’s abdominal area.

 



 

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Top 10 Unhealthy Day-To-Day Habits We All Share

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 09:07 PM PST

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In a society where the media constantly informs people about the dangers of vices like smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, reality distorting drugs and engaging in numerous other high risk behavior, there are still unknown or at least less known threats lurking in the shadows. It would appear at first glance that basically anything you do nowadays is bound to kill you, some of them sooner and some of them in a couple of years.

Even the most common daily activities that people share fall under this category, as you are about to find out. However, we’re not going to discuss the obvious one like the dangers of eating junk food on a daily basis, working in a high stress environment or overindulging in sweets. There are far more subtle potentially harmful factors masquerading as “normal” and “harmless” in our daily routine.

 

1. A fish-based diet

fish-based diet

Fish meat has long been advocated as providing great health benefits, especially in terms of improving brain functions, in addition of course to being absolutely delicious. While normally the fish meat – safe of course for the species that are naturally poisonous – does not contain any harmful toxic elements, it does show a great propensity towards absorbing the toxins present in their habitat. Therefore, a vast majority of oceanic fish will contain a substantial amount of mercury, whereas the non-oceanic species (particularly farm bread ones) are intentionally spiked with pesticides to control the spread of sea lice. Take your pick.

 

2. Tap water and even its bottled version

Tap water

PFOA and PFOS are as dangerous as they are omnipresent in virtually all products, especially electronic devices, rugs, food wrappers, etc. However, while you could avert contact with them by steering clear of the aforementioned items as much as possible, water is not exactly avoidable. And, the bad news is that in spite of the risks posed by exposure, the U.S. federal authorities have not implemented laws to determine water providers to control the amounts of PFOA and PFOS.

 

3. On the same subject, hot water bottles

Hot water bottles

The materials utilized for the hot water bottles, more exactly the polycarbonate plastics, contain another dangerous substance – Bisphenol A (BPA). Tests conducted on laboratory mice have displayed shocking results, as the specimens held in cages constructed from these fabrics exhibited a 40% chance of developing chromosomal mutations. In addition, other research studies indicated a direct connection between BPA exposure and carcinoma (particularly breast/prostate forms), endocrinal dysfunctions and brain damage.

 

4. Utilizing dental floss and shampoo

Dental floss

PFC or Peri-Fluorinated Compounds are widely utilized in various industries due to their ability of making a surface resistant to stains and adhesion. Since the PFCs are very hard to break down and due to their high toxicity levels, they have no place in products like dental floss, soap or shampoo. Unfortunately, the proven link between kidney/liver failure and the usage of PFC based cosmetics is ignored by the manufacturers, as well as their high toxicity for newborns/fetuses. Moreover, in the U.S. the number of PFC products is higher than for any other part of the world, due to the absence of its mention in the legislation.

 

5. Television, bad for you on many different levels

Television

Naturally, spending most of the time in front of the television set is not exactly considered healthy by anyone, especially since the behavior is associated with a sedentary lifestyle, junk food, alcohol/tobacco consumption, etc. But recently, Queensland University finalized a rather comprehensive study which shows that an individual’s lifespan decreases proportionally with the number of hours spent in front of the TV at a rate of 22 minutes per hour. This means that you aren’t just wasting your life watching TV, you are also shortening it.

 



 

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