Archive for August, 2009
Panasonic Blood Pressure Monitor with SD Card
Friday, August 21st, 2009If you need to monitor your blood pressure, here’s a gadget that might come in very handy. Panasonic’s Blood Pressure monitor with an SD card slot. It allows you to save your health data on the SD card for up to 5 different people. So if you have a few people in your home with [...]
Your Cash May Make You Sick
Thursday, August 20th, 2009We handle cash every day. During 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency is everywhere, ATMs, coffee shops, we touch it, we drop it. Every touch brings us into contact with dirt, food, germs or even drug residue. 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine. But we have to use cash right? Only sometimes. [...]
Phone calls help cancer patients
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009If you leave a patient alone in a room they will wither, much like a plant, while if that patient has social interaction they will perk up like a plant that has been watered. It’s common sense. So asking nurses to reach out to people who have advanced cancer, even if just by phone, can [...]
Tiny “bees” target tumors
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009“Nanobees,” are not insects. They’re tiny particles designed to destroy cancer cells by delivering a synthesized version of a toxin called melittin that is found in bees. “Melittin, which would otherwise result in substantial destruction of your red blood cells and other normal tissues if it were delivered intravenously alone, is completely safe when it’s [...]
Aromatherapy
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Aromatherapy, or essential oils therapy, is when you use a plant’s aroma-producing oils to treat disease. Essential oils come from a plant’s flowers, leaves, stalks, etc. The oils are mixed with oil, alcohol, or lotion and then put on the skin, sprayed in the air, or inhaled. It has many benefits and can work quite [...]
