News that personal medical devices such as insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other wearable or implanted devices, could be hacked sent shockwaves through the medical community but researchers from Purdue and Princeton were quick to react. They have developed a signal-jamming personal firewall to protect medical devices, such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, from being hacked.
Category: Medical
Researchers describe how to control your dreams and turn them into “lucid dreams”
Just in time for Halloween – researchers fill dog with zombie juice then bring the dead dog back to life
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh’s Safar Center for Resuscitation Research have made good their name. Researchers took 24 dogs and stopped their hearts and waited until there was no brain activity. They then drained the dogs’ blood and replaced it with a chilled saline solution (zombie juice). Then with one foot outside the door,…
Duh – Exhaled CO2 may impair cognitive functioning when accumulated in indoor environments
How to read the intent behind a person’s handshake (or how to promote yourself as a pompous bitch thru your shake)
Psychological studies indicate that much can be gleaned from a person’s handshake, especially when it’s the first time you’ve met the person and are forming that oh-so-important first impression. Psychologists say a person forms their impression of you in the first 5-10 seconds after they meet you and that once formed in the person’s mind,…
Girl has stomach removed after drinking cocktail with liquid nitrogen in it
Liquid nitrogen boils at -196C, a characteristic that makes it pretty cool for oh, flash freezing alcoholic beverages and making cocktails give off a cloud of smoky vapor. That’s what Oscar’s Wine Bar in the United Kingdom puts in their drinks to give them that “cool” look. Until yesterday when Gaby Scanion, a teenager who…
Did you Know (DYK)–there are really six degrees of burns
See why Junk DNA might not be as worthless as they thought
40 years ago, scientists coined the term “Junk DNA” to describe the part of the genome that does not contain any genes. Given that genes represent the body’s instructions for how to make vital proteins, egotistical scientists figured Mother Nature must have screwed up in the 98% of the genome without any genes. Or so…
New research again shows green tea increases memory brain cells
Are Chinese so smart because they drink Green Tea? Research just published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research seems to indicate so. EGCG in green tea is the key. Professor Yun Bai from the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China explained: Green tea is a popular beverage across the world. There has been plenty of…








