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vaccine attitudes around the world

I realize it's how the question is asked, but this still disturbs

 

last resort medical care in america

Because America hates the poor  (via The Washington Post)

Civilized countries - and many that aren't - consider healthcare a human right.

 

 

 

 

more comfortable heart monitoring

an e-tattoo from the University of Texas  In addition to conventional ECG it does seismicardiogrphy

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Although soft e-tattoos for ECG sensing are not new, other sensors, such as the SCG sensor, are still made from nonstretchable materials, making them bulky and uncomfortable to wear. Lu and her team’s e-tattoo is made of a piezoelectric polymer called polyvinylidene fluoride, capable of generating its own electric charge in response to mechanical stress. The device also includes 3D digital image correlation technology that is used to map chest vibrations in order to identify the best location on the chest to place the e‐tattoo.

The e-tattoo has another advantage over traditional methods. Usually an ECG measurement requires going into a doctor’s office, where heart health can be monitored only for a couple of minutes at a time. This device can be worn for days, providing constant heart monitoring.

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a tip of the hat to Malcolm

an invention of the devil?

:-)  or more appropriately :(

Young people may be developing horns .. posture change through smartphone use.

 

tobacco's special friend

None other than Mitch McConnell  (via NPR)

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E-cigarette companies want to avoid liability for the youth vaping epidemic, says Eubanks, and "the industry's support for such measures gets them off the hook."

McConnell is "covering for them," says Dr. David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Still, whatever the motivation, Kessler says he welcomes increasing the tobacco age to 21.

"I'll take it," he says. "But this is happening because the industry is in trouble."

In fact, the day of McConnell's announcement, a board member for the Vapor Technology Association, an industry trade association, tweeted, "Hopefully, this will cause #FDA to reevaluate" tougher regulations on flavored e-cigarettes.

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a computer security guy considers the next pandemic

Bruce Scheier considers what might  happen when disease meets widespread fake news.   (via The New York Times)

 

 

when you exercise makes a difference

Like so many other things the time of day appears to have an impact.

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

metabolism is poorly understood

And the microbes in your gut may impact how your medicine works.

A tip of the hat to Greg

 

tactics behind the republican epa deregulation

Change the calculations to make it easy on polluters and hard on nature and people.

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When Tom Jorling was a Senate aide helping to draft the Clean Air Act in 1970, he often listened to executives from the nation’s biggest car companies warn that the law’s pollution-cutting requirements would put them out of business.

But during a break from one such meeting, an auto engineer told him the bosses were lying: Detroit had the expertise to make its cars much cleaner. “We can do whatever you want us to do,” Jorling recalls the technician saying. “But the executive leadership kept up with their mantra that it’s so expensive, and it’s going to threaten their viability.”

Exaggerating the costs of new regulations and understating their benefits has long been a favorite strategy in the polluters’ playbook. Now, experts say, the Trump administration wants to turn that approach into Environmental Protection Agency policy. It is pushing to rewrite the cost-benefit calculation that underpins an Obama-era rule on emissions of mercury, arsenic, and other hazardous metals from coal-fired power plants. The EPA wants to use a new, much narrower estimate of the 2011 rule’s health benefits to withdraw the legal designation that the regulation is “appropriate and necessary.”

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10,000 steps a day

Walking is a great exercise but 10,000 steps a day is a myth.  A good myth, but is there a real target number?  Perhaps there is.

a tip of the hat to Sukie.