Tag: health
Flurona: what we know so far about the rare new double infection
Image Credit(AP) It sounds more like science fiction the more you hear it: The first case of Flurona, a new and rare double infection of coronavirus and influenza, was discovered in an unvaccinated pregnant Israeli young woman, according to doctors at Beilinson Hospital in the city from Petach Tikva…
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Withings’ Body Scan scale can measure the composition of different parts of your body
Over five years after the release of the Body Cardio (and one flirtation with Nokia), French company Withings has released its far most technologically advanced connected scale yet, the Body Scan. The big change over the last model is the addition of a handle with four stainless steel electrodes that…
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Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province
Medical imaging service in a hospital in Savoie, France. A technician monitors a brain MRI scan session. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A whistleblower spoke to The Guardian about a mysterious neurological disease in New Brunswick, Canada. They spoke of their concerns about the disease, saying that it was spreading…
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The tech industry’s accessibility report card for 2021
In spite of all the advancements we’ve seen in tech, the industry as a whole has consistently neglected people with disabilities. There have been some improvements, including video call apps like FaceTime, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts and more adding better support for sign language interpreters and closed captioning. And,…
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South Africa lifts curfew as it says COVID-19 fourth wave peaked
South Africa lifted the nightly curfew at 4 a.m. The course of the pandemic, vaccination rates in the country and available capacity in the health sector, according to a press release from Mondli Gungubele, Minister of the Presidency, South Africa is currently at the lowest of its five phases of…
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NASA’s new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball ‘squashing’ on the ISS
Becoming an astronaut requires perfect 20/20 vision, but unfortunately, the effects of space can cause astronauts to return to Earth with degraded eyesight. Now, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a sleeping bag that that could prevent or reduce those problems by effectively sucking fluid out of astronauts'…
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