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ReCell kit grows spray on skin at home

November 19, 2011

Growing skin at home has never been easier.

While skin grafts are an essential tool for treating severe burns, Avita Medical has developed a compact kit that grows replacement skin that can be sprayed on. Which has resulted in faster healing and better cosmetic results in patient testing.

Instead of growing patches of skin that can be draped over severely burned areas, the ReCell kit uses a small sample of the patient’s keratinocytes and melanocytes skin cells that quickly reproduce in a special suspension solution…

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Congress makes pizza a vegetable on school lunch menus

November 19, 2011

Pizza a vegetable in schools.

The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow. The U.S. House of Representatuves passed a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

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Hybrid cars safer than traditional cars

November 17, 2011

Hybrid cars are safer for occupants.

People who drive hybrid cars are significantly less likely to be injured in an accident because their heavy batteries make the vehicles safer than traditional cars, according to an insurance industry report released Thursday.

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Too much Vitamin D can double heart condition risk

November 17, 2011

Vitamin D is essential for bone growth and cellular health but high does could be bad for your heart.

High doses of vitamin D could more than double the chance of having a type of serious heart complaint, according to results of a large-scale survey.

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Women 9 times more likely to suffer ‘broken heart syndrome’: study

November 17, 2011

Women are seven to nine times more likely to suffer a heart attack from shock or distress.

Women are up to nine times more likely to suffer ‘broken heart syndrome,’ a study revealed today.

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Americans more likely to reach age 90 than ever before

November 17, 2011

The 90-plus population is projected to reach 8 million by midcentury.

More Americans are will reach the age of 90 than ever before. Figures from the first-ever census on the 90-plus population show it’s nearly tripled in size since 1980, to 1.9 million.

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More employers penalize smokers with higher insurance premiums

November 17, 2011

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest employer, recently sought the higher payments from some smokers, as much as $2000 more than non-smokers.

Employers are making a shift toward penalizing employees with unhealthy lifestyles rather than rewarding employees with good habits as more employers are demanding that workers who smoke, are overweight or have high cholesterol shoulder a greater share of their health care costs.

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Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe

November 16, 2011

“Safety” at a price.

Ever since the attack on the Twin Towers back in 2001, security at airports has been significantly increased to help ensure no aircraft is ever hijacked again. But some of the new security measures have not been welcomed by all, with the prime example being the new full-body X-ray scanners.

These scanners are controversial for two reasons. The first is that they allow operators to see an intimate, graphic view of the person being scanned. But that has been solved to a large extent by the use of privacy filters.

The second, and much larger concern is the risk of them causing cancer…

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Kids who love video games have brains like gambling addicts

November 16, 2011

Can heavy gaming be considered an addiction?

Some children’s brains could be hard-wired to spend hours playing video games, according to a study which reignites the debate over whether the habit should be considered an addiction. Researchers found that children who spent an excessive amount of time playing the games had an enlarged area of the brain which is the main hub of the reward system.

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Will purists drink wine from a cardboard bottle?

November 15, 2011

GreenBottle in action.

To drink or not to drink..from a bottle that isn’t glass, that is the question. A UK company has invented the world’s first paper wine bottle. But will purists drink wine from it?

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