- A spray that gets you drunk for a few minutes -
The Continuation of Improving Delivery Systems
(I’m calling the trend, cosmetic led medicine)
(Source: unglobalpulse.org)
@Earth - told you so…
2011 Breakthrough of the Year:
HIV Treatment as Prevention
Science has chosen the finding that antiretroviral drugs reduce the risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV as its Breakthrough of the Year.
(Source: searchforacure.org)
“The Great Flu” is free online game in which public health professionals (and anybody else) can practice their outbreak control skills.
(via pubhealth)
“Outbreak at Watersedge” is a game in which you play a public health intern responsible for gathering information on a small illness outbreak, determining the cause, and helping to identify a solution.
Great resource for learning about public health.
I don’t understand why some people try and make prosthetics look like the thing missing, obviously it wasn’t working or else it would be there.
Seriously though, it is like 3d animation that tries to make humans, they always look weird so what is the point. Obviously improving on the design is a bettter strategy and should be embraced.
If they work, should placebos be used in clinical practice?
Absolutely ! and some of them will have really intricate dosing schedules like you have to run three miles to metabolize this one, etc…
The New Yorker: This year, Harvard created an institute dedicated wholly to the study of placebos, the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter…The program was formed to explore an idea that even twenty years ago would have seemed preposterous: that placebos—given deliberately—might be deployed in clinical practice. As medicine.
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1 Somebody Prep Dustin and Cuba
Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu
A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists – who now want to publish full details of how they did it.
The discovery has…
(Source: independent.co.uk)
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epochBrennan’s 2011 Life Time Achievement Award Goes To:
Slim Goodbody, Health Ambassador
(we are going to have to meet Slim, see you in 2012)
Because health is fashionable: micronutrient supplements (vitamins, minerals, proteins, antioxidants) are replacing Hard-Drugs at Hip-Parties
First water
Now Gum
Idea: Use Procrastination to Quit Smoking, to Quit Eating, to Quit Shopping to Quit Anything
“I’ll just have a cigarette tomorrow”
