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Low Power Network for Wireless Body Sensors
July 19th, 2019 Medgadget Editors Cardiology, Diagnostics, Materials, Medicine, Military Medicine, Sports Medicine As wearable devices multiply and gather ever more data about our bodies, the batteries and wireless networks they rely on can become strained. To give wearables a longer battery life and to allow gigabytes of data to be transmitted at the same… Read More »
Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Declared a Global Health Emergency
The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, in a formal declaration that many public health experts called long overdue. “This is still a regional emergency and by no way a global threat,” said Robert Steffen of the University… Read More »
Dr. Pimple Popper Treats a Woman With a Huge Lipoma in Season 3, Episode 2
• In season three, episode two of TLC’s Dr. Pimple Popper, Dr. Sandra Lee, MD, treats a woman with a large growth in her leg.• The woman, Leta, has had the bump for 10 years.• Lee successfully removes the lipoma from Leta’s leg. On Thursday night’s episode of Dr. Pimple Popper, our valiant hero—Dr. Sandra… Read More »
Dr Miriam Stoppard: New drug brings hope of slowing sight failure
As we get older our eyesight becomes vulnerable to age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) and diabetic macular oedema (DMO). Both conditions will cause blindness if left untreated. Their main feature is the excessive growth of blood vessels which can leak in the eye which clouds vision. This is due to leakage of fluid from the abnormal… Read More »