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A SCOTS hospital is the first in Britain to employ ROBOTS as porters.
A fleet of the state-of-the-art machines will deliver food, medical supplies and laundry at the new £300million state-of-the-art Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
Health chiefs say the hi-tech helpers will cut the risk of infections and free staff for other duties.
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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Gripping stuff: the world's first bionic fingers go on sale
The world's first bionic fingers which allow users with damaged hands to pick up a glass, hold cutlery and even write have been developed by British scientists.
Phil Newman, Director of Marketing at Touch Bionics in Livingston near Edinburgh, demonstrates the new bionic fingers Photo: PA The custom-made motorised digits, which cost between £35,000 and £45,000, are directly controlled by the brain and yet require no surgery.
Those fitted with the device can bend, touch, pick up and point, simple actions which can be impossible with absent fingers and thumbs.
They can also write and grip thanks to a special sensor that allows the fingers to detect when they have closed around an object.
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Phil Newman, Director of Marketing at Touch Bionics in Livingston near Edinburgh, demonstrates the new bionic fingers Photo: PA The custom-made motorised digits, which cost between £35,000 and £45,000, are directly controlled by the brain and yet require no surgery.
Those fitted with the device can bend, touch, pick up and point, simple actions which can be impossible with absent fingers and thumbs.
They can also write and grip thanks to a special sensor that allows the fingers to detect when they have closed around an object.
Read more here.
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
Curry is a 'cure for cancer'
SCIENTISTS have discovered a potential cure for cancer — CURRY.
A molecule located in a spice from the Indian dish was found to kill the diseased cells within 24 HOURS.
Now boffins hope the ingredient could be used as an anti-cancer treatment.
The shock discovery was made after the chemical curcumin — found in the turmeric spice — was tested to fight cancer of the oesophagus in a laboratory.
Read more here.
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A molecule located in a spice from the Indian dish was found to kill the diseased cells within 24 HOURS.
Now boffins hope the ingredient could be used as an anti-cancer treatment.
The shock discovery was made after the chemical curcumin — found in the turmeric spice — was tested to fight cancer of the oesophagus in a laboratory.
Read more here.
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Thursday, 8 October 2009
Strange disease affecting women breaks out in Zambia
A strange disease only affecting the joints of women and making them fail to stand on their own has been found in Zambia's Luapula Province, the Times of Zambia reported on Thursday.
The strange disease dubbed Dwarf has broken out in the Chembe area of the province and is only affecting women and girls, making them fail to stand on their own, Times said.
Teleshi Lwando, an employee at the local Lwela Health Center, told the visiting lawmaker from the area, Mwansa Mbulakulima, that the disease was not "very serious" and that patients were healing after three days.
He said the disease first broke out at Kabunda High School where a number of school girls had suffered from the disease.
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The strange disease dubbed Dwarf has broken out in the Chembe area of the province and is only affecting women and girls, making them fail to stand on their own, Times said.
Teleshi Lwando, an employee at the local Lwela Health Center, told the visiting lawmaker from the area, Mwansa Mbulakulima, that the disease was not "very serious" and that patients were healing after three days.
He said the disease first broke out at Kabunda High School where a number of school girls had suffered from the disease.
Read more here.
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009
OAP's skull grows back - 50 years after crash!
A PENSIONER has amazed medics after part of his skull grew back – 50 years after a car crash.
Former postmaster Gordon Moore, 75, from Northumberland, had a metal plate above his eyes and on the top of his skull in a life-saving operation in 1955 when he flipped his car.
And when doctors removed it recently to treat an infection, surgeons were shocked to find the bone had completely regenerated underneath.
Read more here.
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Former postmaster Gordon Moore, 75, from Northumberland, had a metal plate above his eyes and on the top of his skull in a life-saving operation in 1955 when he flipped his car.
And when doctors removed it recently to treat an infection, surgeons were shocked to find the bone had completely regenerated underneath.
Read more here.
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Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Father has 48-hour memory after suffering with stress
A former policeman, Andy Wray, does not recognise his own wife and daughter if he is parted from them for more than 48 hours after suffering severe trauma brought on by the stress of his job.
Mr Wray, 32, had a mental breakdown two years after leaving the force when he became affected by the memories of terrible car crashes and suicides he had witnessed.
Mr Wray, now a supermarket worker from Colchester, Essex, set off to hospital feeling ill, and when he arrived he had forgotten his wife Jo, his baby daughter Chloe, and his whole life.
Now, nearly three years later, he still cannot recognise Mrs Wray, 34, or Chloe, three, if they leave him for longer than 48 hours.
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Mr Wray, 32, had a mental breakdown two years after leaving the force when he became affected by the memories of terrible car crashes and suicides he had witnessed.
Mr Wray, now a supermarket worker from Colchester, Essex, set off to hospital feeling ill, and when he arrived he had forgotten his wife Jo, his baby daughter Chloe, and his whole life.
Now, nearly three years later, he still cannot recognise Mrs Wray, 34, or Chloe, three, if they leave him for longer than 48 hours.
Read more here.
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Friday, 25 September 2009
UK swine flu vaccine 'approved'
The European drugs regulator has given the go-ahead for one of the UK's swine flu vaccines.
An expert committee agreed that Pandemrix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, can be used in adults and children over six months old and pregnant women.
The decision removes one of the last obstacles to getting the immunisation programme under way although licensing still needs to be formalised.
The UK has bought 60 million doses of the vaccine.
In addition, there are contracts for an as yet unapproved vaccine, Celvapan, produced by Baxter.
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Monday, 21 September 2009
I can cure Aids - healer
Scientists at South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are testing a concoction of indigenous plants used by a traditional healer who claims it can cure HIV and Aids.
The research was described at the Sixth annual Bio2Biz conference in Durban on Monday.
About 700 scientists from across the continent are attending the event, which aims to build partnerships between biotechnologists and the business community.
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The research was described at the Sixth annual Bio2Biz conference in Durban on Monday.
About 700 scientists from across the continent are attending the event, which aims to build partnerships between biotechnologists and the business community.
Read more here.
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Watchdog Brand Healer A Menace
The BBC's Watchdog says he's a menace. But when one of our most cynical writers met Britain's most controversial healer, her scepticism began to waver.
So here I am with the man who, in recent days, has become the most controversial healer in Britain - and he's giving me a backrub. Or as Adrian Pengelly puts it: 'I'm tuning into your energy.'
His hands, some claim magical hands, move up and down my spine. There's a weird warm, tingling sensation.
'Your energy's moving OK,' he says, which is, I guess, a good thing. Not like poor Matt Allwright from BBC1's Watchdog.
Read more here.
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So here I am with the man who, in recent days, has become the most controversial healer in Britain - and he's giving me a backrub. Or as Adrian Pengelly puts it: 'I'm tuning into your energy.'
His hands, some claim magical hands, move up and down my spine. There's a weird warm, tingling sensation.
'Your energy's moving OK,' he says, which is, I guess, a good thing. Not like poor Matt Allwright from BBC1's Watchdog.
Read more here.
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Friday, 18 September 2009
Blind Woman Sees After Tooth In Eye Surgery
Forget about an eye for an eye -- doctors in Florida have taken a blind woman's tooth, and used it to help restore her vision.
Cutting-edge surgery can restore eyesight with an implant from a tooth.A team of specialists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they are the first surgeons in the United States to restore a person's sight by using a tooth. The procedure is formally called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP).
Read more here.
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Cutting-edge surgery can restore eyesight with an implant from a tooth.A team of specialists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they are the first surgeons in the United States to restore a person's sight by using a tooth. The procedure is formally called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP).
Read more here.
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Sunday, 13 September 2009
Fingernails Growing Faster
The speed of finger and toenail growth has surged by nearly a quarter over the past 70 years, a new study has revealed.
And the modern diet – rich in protein from readily available fish, meat, eggs and poultry – may be behind the spurt.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina compared results to a study of nail growth published by Oxford University in 1938 and another study from the Fifties.
The results revealed that big toenails now grow by more than 2mm a month, compared with 1.65mm in the Thirties.
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And the modern diet – rich in protein from readily available fish, meat, eggs and poultry – may be behind the spurt.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina compared results to a study of nail growth published by Oxford University in 1938 and another study from the Fifties.
The results revealed that big toenails now grow by more than 2mm a month, compared with 1.65mm in the Thirties.
Read more here.
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