CNN |
Tobacco use jumps 80% in top-grossing movies
CNN (CNN) In 2016, 41% of top-grossing US movies showed people using tobacco, according to a recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a decrease from the year before. However, there was an 80% increase in incidents of tobacco ... |
MIT Technology Review |
US to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces
MIT Technology Review by Adam Piore; July 10, 2017; A brush-like bundle of microwires developed by startup Paradromics represents one novel concept to record from inside the brain. Matt Angle's claim might have sounded eccentric before: for years, he insisted that the key ... Researchers revolutionize brain-computer interfaces using silicon electronics DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons DARPA is helping five groups create neural interfaces for our brains |
MyArkLaMiss |
CDC's New Chief Led Georgia's Public Health Department
Governing The Trump administration has picked the head of the Georgia Department of Public Health to run the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, the Department of Public Health commissioner since 2011, was ... CDC directors old and new: What sets Brenda Fitzgerald and Thomas Frieden apart? Georgia's public health chief now heads up CDC and ATSDR Ga. health commissioner named CDC director |
CNN |
Solving the problem of sleep in hospitals
CNN (CNN) When Dr. Joseph Schlesinger's mother was in the hospital, it was hard to speak with her by phone above the beeps and blips of medical devices. It was even harder for her to get some shut-eye. "She couldn't sleep at all," said Schlesinger, an ... |
The Register |
Canberra reviewing online Medicare lookup after data breach
The Register It looks like the government's figured out how Australians' Medicare numbers were leaking and ending up on a Tor trading site: an insider abusing a login. Lsat week, the existence of “The Medicare Machine” became public after a journalist for The ... |