Medicine
Online Photos, Vanity, and Plastic Surgery
This piece is making me guilty about my online profile photos Social Media Leads to Spikes in Plastic Surgery Requests ‘The survey polled 752 of the AAFPRS’ board-certified facial plastic surgeons on the trends in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. This year, one finding stuck out: surgeons are seeing a 31% increase in plastic surgery requests […]
Why Hospitals Deliberately Make Your Health Worse
Preventable mistakes in surgery earn $30K more This makes me proud of Philippine hospitals and surgeons. I have never heard an infamous case of deliberate patient mishandling. ‘Hospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients need to treat surgical complications that could have […]
What Social Engineering Is
How to influence society See if you will agree with these definitions ‘I know the official definitions of Social Engineering. According to Wikipedia, there are two: ‘”Social engineering (political science), influencing society on a large scale.” ‘”Social engineering (security), obtaining confidential information by manipulating and/or deceiving people.” ‘This always felt off to me, so I’d […]
How to See Invisible Movements in Video
Researchers amplify variations in video, making the invisible visible New software amplifies changes in successive frames of video that are too subtle for the naked eye ‘…The software makes it possible to actually “see” someone’s pulse, as the skin reddens and pales with the flow of blood, and it can exaggerate tiny motions, making visible […]
90 Unnecessary Medical Tests And Procedures
Patients Should question their MDs with those ‘Unnecessary procedures include using feeding tubes for dementia patients, C-section deliveries for healthy women before 39 weeks of pregnancy, ultrasound tests for ovarian cysts, and CT scans for minor headaches. The list builds on a project initiated last year by the Choosing Wisely campaign, which seeks to trigger […]
The HealthSpot Walk-In Kiosks
Allows Doctors To Examine Patients Virtually [Video] A great business idea too ‘A small walk-in station that is designed to be a convenient and affordable healthcare system for the community. The kiosk is equipped with a teleconference system, and allows the visitor to directly speak with and see a doctor on-screen, and in a private […]
Web Site Defacement Considered ‘Cyber Threat’
And that is what most digital hacktivists do. But it’s unclear whether White House considers it as crime ‘…So last month’s apparent hacking and defacement of MIT’s website in honor of late internet activist Aaron Swartz could be considered a “cyber threat,” by the White House under this definition, for example. Less clear is just […]
The Problem with Your Food is Drugs
Another hidden epidemic ‘Back in 2005, when I was a reporter based out of TIME’s Hong Kong office, I spent more time than I care to remember in the backyard chicken farms of Asia. This was the time of the H5N1 avian flu, which broke out regularly in chickens and occasionally (with fatal effects) in […]
DEATH BY DOCTORS (SHOCKING FIGURES)
You can get access to that story by The David Icke Newsletter or the links below ‘Why has this massive story of global importance been removed from the Daily Mail Website?’ davidicke Patenting Human Body Parts In a way, this has been already happening with 3D generated prosthetics. Read Micheal Crichton’s NEXT to get more […]
“Health” Companies to Avoid in 2013
‘Recently California had the opportunity to force GM foods to be labelled under Proposition 37. Thanks to a massive campaign on the part of corporations using GM foods, the bill was shot down. Based on the research of The Cornucopia Institute, here are some of the companies who opposed this important legislation. In other words, […]
