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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

New cigarette packaging warning labels

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Some of the 36 proposed new warning labels the FDA will require on cigarette packages. (some are pretty ghastly.) Via . * Buy Remove Chil...

Get your grandparents a prescription handgun for the holidays?

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This is the Palm Pistol , ergonomically designed for the elderly and disabled. Apparently , it's been classified as a medical device an...

Legendary Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh had his stomach removed, plus other news of the day

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1. Sadaharu Oh had his entire stomach removed due to cancer. He hit 868 career homeruns in Japan. Link . Via . (Stomach toys on sale at...

Johnson and Johnson marketing contact lenses to eight-year-olds

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Shirley Wang for the WSJ : With stents and anemia drugs under pressure, Johnson & Johnson is looking for growth wherever it can find it....

Video: Alter-G, the $75,000 anti-gravity treadmill

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Here's the official site . The Lakers are using one to rehab one of their players with a knee injury.

The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs

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The official site says: Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for...

Senior citizens in Japan are not ready to welcome their robot overlords

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"Most (elderly) people are not interested in robots. They see robots as overly-complicated and unpractical. They want to be able to get...

"U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits"

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Eric Miller's career as an Army Ranger wasn't ended by a battlefield wound, but his DNA. Lurking in his genes was a mutation that ma...