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German inventors develop bracelet to test drinks for date-rape drugs

April 17, 2019

Inventors in Germany have developed a bracelet aimed at combatting a fear of many clubbers — drink spiking.

Kim Eisenmann and Sven Häuser’s “Xantus” bracelet only needs a drop of liquid to be applied to tell if it contains traces of “date rape drugs” — substances put in a person’s drink to incapacitate them.

The band, which is already available at German healthcare shop dm-drogerie markt, is white and resembles the ribbon used to enter many clubs.

It has two green circles that turn blue if the wearer applies some of their drink and the result is positive for the drugs.

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Biotech, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medicine

A potential boom is coming in anti-aging drugs

September 5, 2018

As the average age in developed economies rises in the coming years and decades, one of the next big economic disruptions may be in anti-aging medicines, according to a report by Citi.

Why it matters: Already, the anti-aging market is about $200 billion, and the new boom could be in drugs that slow, reverse or prevent age-related disease, Citi says. On the other hand, if people are aging more slowly, and diseases are slowed or prevented, then other drugs, treatments and surgeries, which earn billions of dollars, may not be necessary.

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Healthcare, Medicine, Science & Technology News

Meet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect’s evil twin that makes you feel pain

October 10, 2017

A fascinating new study finds patients report worse side effects when a drug costs more money.

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Human Behavior, Latest Trend, Legal Issues, Science & Technology News

A third of millennials have used Venmo to pay for drugs

July 17, 2017

A new survey finds that 33% of millennials have used Venmo, the payments app owned by PayPal that’s popular with the demographic, to buy illicit drugs.

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Why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it

November 16, 2015

Singularity University held its Exponential Medicine Conference last week in San Diego, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today’s broken healthcare system.

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Big Problems, Business, Health & Fitness, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Illegal drugs are easy to order on China’s open online drug market

June 23, 2015

Illegal drugs from China are as easy as typing on a keyboard to order. More than 150 Chinese companies sell alpha-PVP, according to guidechem.com. alpha-PVP is also known as flakka, a dangerous stimulant that is illegal in the United States but not in China, and was blamed for 18 recent deaths in one Florida county.

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MIT researchers reveal an interface that allows us to plug our brain into a computer

February 3, 2015

MIT senior, Christina Tringides, holds a sample of the multifunction fiber.

MIT researchers reveal an interface that could make plugging our brain into a computer a reality. Their system uses new fibers less than a width of a hair that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with electrical readouts to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs.

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The Branding of Marijuana in the Marketplace

January 9, 2015

The market for marijuana is changing, at least in the states where the drug has been legalized. In Colorado and Washington, where recreational marijuana is legal for adults, cannabis sellers are finding new approaches to the way they sell their products. The new business plan, for many, includes advertising and marketing — a shifting image.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

New treatments show promise in prolonging human life

October 9, 2014

Drugs to slow aging already exist in the form of relatively cheap medicines that have been used for other purposes for years.

There is evidence that some widely used drugs can prolong lifespan for well people – and insiders have started taking them off-label. Millions of people are taking anti-aging drugs every day – they just don’t know it. Drugs to slow aging sound futuristic but they already exist in the form of relatively cheap medicines that have been used for other purposes for decades.

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The most dangerous ‘date rape drug’ by far – alcohol

September 26, 2014

The substance most commonly associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault is alcohol.

Last month, the news that a nail polish was being developed to detect “date rape drugs,” created a media furor, attracting praise and skepticism in roughly equal measure. But this is not the first product that claims to detect drugs added surreptitiously to drinks. In recent years, others have included coasters, straws and glasses.

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Analysis, Economy, government, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Eight facts that explain what’s wrong with health care in America

September 8, 2014

Obamacare is not universal health care.

If the American health care system were to break off from the United States and become its own economy, it would be the fifth-largest in the world. “It would be bigger than the United Kingdom or France and only behind the United States, China, Japan and Germany,” says David Blumenthal, executive director of the non-profit Commonwealth Fund. Here are eight facts that support reality.

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Great New Product, Health & Fitness, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Undercover Colors – a special nail polish changes colors if exposed to a drugged drink

August 28, 2014

Undercover Colors detects date-rape drug.

Four college students from North Carolina State University have created a nail polish that may help protect the lives of college partiers everywhere. The polish — called “Undercover Colors” — will change shades if it becomes exposed to a drugged drink.

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