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"Big Pharma's Role In Overmedicating Nursing Home Patients"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:38

"Hundreds of thousands of elderly nursing home residents suffering from dementia may have been overmedicated with strong anti-psychotic drugs that could harm them, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Almost 90 percent of 300,000 nursing home residents with dementia got powerful drugs meant for treating serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in 2007, says Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson.

In an alarming statement, Levinson noted the complicity of drug companies in this dangerous practice:"

"iPhone app enables remote stroke diagnosis"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 07:14

"A screen no larger than the palm of your hand can be used by doctors to remotely diagnose a stroke just as accurately as if they were at a hospital workstation, according to University of Calgary research.

A recent study examined the usefulness of an iPhone application -Resolution MD -developed by U of C researchers, that lets physicians view high-resolution 3-D brain and diagnostic images on a mobile device.

The study looked at nearly 200 brain and head scans using the mobile app, and compared the results to traditional computer workstations in hospitals."

"City fluoridation ending within weeks"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 07:04

"For Calgarians wary of the sideeffects of water fluoridation, it will be the day the taps can flow freely.

For dentists, it will be the day that more tooth rot begins to set in.

Some undetermined day in the next few weeks will mark the end of Calgary adding fluoride to its water supply. Council repealed its 20-year-old fluoridation bylaw Monday, and within two weeks Alberta Environment will give formal authority for the change, a report to aldermen says.

"Once the order is issued, we can turn the taps off," Mayor Naheed Nenshi told reporters before the evening vote."

"Microsoft poised to buy Skype"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 07:03

"NEW YORK - Microsoft is close to buying internet telephony network Skype in an $8.5-billion U.S. deal, a source familiar with the situation said, as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals like Google.

Buying the loss-making but popular Skype would underline Microsoft's need to gain new customers and platforms for its software as smartphones and tablets explode in popularity.

Skype, which allows people to make calls at no charge, would also give Microsoft a foothold in potentially the lucrative video-conferencing market as global businesses seeking to reduce expenditures shift to lower-cost ways of communicating."

"How long can we survive without food or water?"

By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 09 May 2011 20:01

"In the 1940s, in one of the world's great acts of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi went 21 days without food, surviving only on occasional sips of water.

Gandhi was in his mid-70s at the time and thin as a reed. But he survived this hunger strike, by no means his first, without any obvious harm. In fact, he would live another four years before his life was cut short by a religious fanatic.

By contrast, Rita Chretien, the 56-year-old B.C. woman who survived nearly 50 days in the Nevada wilderness, existed, it is believed, on a small amount of left-over food and melted snow, raising the question: How long can a person get by without food or water?"

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