Archive for category Health
The “Magic Mirror” Maps Our Muscles
Posted by mistergroonk in Health, Only in Japan, Robots, The Future on March 12, 2009

above: the mirror in 3 parts(3rd part purely hypothetical)
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a computerized, sensor-based “magic mirror†that analyzes muscular activity and shows real-time computer-generated images of how hard the user’s muscles are being worked while exercising.
The Pink Tentacle article continues in-depth. They talk muscle mapping data, benefits to medical science, and increasing general health performance. All we saw was: Build better robots. Make them like us. Give them plans.
All of this research originates from Tokyo, of course.
(via pink tentacle)
Mashup Monday Yesterday: Our Pants are Royal
Posted by mistergroonk in Health, Music on March 10, 2009
We have a consistent groove in our mp3 player of convenience. It never ceases to bolster the spirit or give us that extra push towards the goal of a 35 minute run(45 minutes on a non-weights day). What is the constant drive in this week’s digital playing device?
That, faithful reader, would be the King of Pants:
“Badd To Me” – The Cure vs The Ying Yang Twins
(via some other mashup site we guess)
BLIND CLICK 14: Fat Map
Posted by mistergroonk in Blind Click, Health on July 25, 2007
Today I Learned: Italian Doctors Grew a Biotech Vagina
Posted by mistergroonk in Health, Science on June 1, 2007
Yes, from this day forth DESIGNER VAGINAS is the possibility.
Rome, May 30 – Italian doctors have built the world’s first biotech vagina.
So far, two patients lacking vaginas because of a rare malformation have been helped to grow ones, using stem cells taken from their own bodies.
Vaginal tissue was grown from the cells and surgically grafted into the women’s groins at Rome’s Umberto I university hospital. In the first case, a 28-year-old woman received 0.3 square centimetres of mucous membrane a year ago and has since grown a vagina. She has married and is “in good health,” doctors said Wednesday.
Day of wonders, I tell you.
(via ansa, warren ellis)
7d’s doing a Relay for Life
Posted by mistergroonk in Health on March 28, 2007
He’s doing it again, in fact. Now don’t you feel worthless? he’s out there doing things for other people. He’s making their world spin a little brighter. And there you are shoving Cheetos in your hole.
Feel guilty yet?
Good.
Now cure that guilt the old fashinoned way…by giving away money.
If you sponsor 7d, YOU will be the ones making some other soul’s world spin a little brighter and you won’t even have to lift a finger.
That’s what some call a win/win situation.
Fill yourself with awesome and win. Sponsor 7d on his Relay for Life for Cancer.
Man Survives 24 Days in 10C Temperature by Hibernating Naturally
Posted by mistergroonk in Admin, Health, Just Freaking Neat, Science on January 7, 2007
Well, damn!
Mitsutaka Uchikoshi went missing on Mt Rokko in western Japan on October 7 after a barbecue with colleagues. Rather than joining them for the return trip by cable car, the 35-year-old decided to walk down the mountain, but lost his way, slipped in a stream and broke his pelvis.
“On the second day, the sun was out, I was in a field, and I felt very comfortable. That’s my last memory,” he said, shortly before being discharged from Kobe city general hospital on Tuesday. “I must have fallen asleep after that.”
When a passing climber found him 24 days later, Mr Uchikoshi’s body temperature had fallen to just 22C (72F), he had a barely discernable pulse and he was suffering from multiple organ failure and blood loss.
“He fell into a state similar to hibernation and many of his organs slowed, but his brain was protected,” Dr Shinichi Sato, head of the hospital’s emergency unit, told reporters. “I believe his brain capacity has recovered 100%.”
(via neilgaiman and guardian unlimited)
Plan B: That Second Chance to Avoid a Big Mistake
Posted by mistergroonk in Health on August 25, 2006
It’s been approved. Finally.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor’s note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BRL)
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women’s advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation’s 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity.
The pills are a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. When a woman takes the pills within 72 hours of unprotected sex, she can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. If she already is pregnant, the pills have no effect.
The earlier it’s taken, the more effective Plan B is. But it can be hard to find a doctor to write a prescription in time, especially on weekends and holidays. Hence the push to allow nonprescription sales.
Barr has said it hopes to begin nonprescription sales of Plan B by the end of the year. The pills will be sold only from behind the counter at pharmacies – so the pharmacist can check photo identification – but not at convenience stores or gas stations.