Video: Awake Endotracheal Intubation for “Fun and Knowledge” by an anesthesiologist from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Not sure about the “fun” part… References: Awake Endotracheal Intubation for Fun and Knowledge .
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Video: Awake Endotracheal Intubation
Last week, VoteBundle offered Mac users 20 apps and asked them to vote on which ones should end up in the final ten-app bundle. Now that bundle is on sale, and an 11th bonus app can be had if you’re willing to promote the sale to your Facebook friends.
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VoteBundle voting ends, Mac bundle goes on sale
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (also called stress induced cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning, or broken heart syndrome) was first described in Japan 20 years ago. It is typically precipitated by acute emotional stress, hence the names “stress cardiomyopathy” or “broken-heart syndrome.” Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterised by acute, reversible left ventricular dysfunction in a distribution,which does not correlate with the coronary artery blood supply. The left ventricular dysfunction occurs without obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and usually resolves spontaneously over a period of weeks.
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken-heart syndrome) in differential diagnosis of chest pain
Grand Openings at every CompUSA and TigerDirect.com retail store across the country are going strong – with lots of individuals stopping by and checking out the all new CompUSA powered by TigerDirect.com! They are seeing lots of folks coming out to see for themselves how you CAN get internet pricing in your hometown! Come on over and check it out for yourself, click here to find a retail store near you . Here’s some photos of this weekend’s event at CompUSA powered by TigerDirect.com retail stores across the country.
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Nationwide Grand Opening Event Underway
Look, we’re certainly not suggesting anything. But we’ve seen a couple episodes of Dexter. Sure, some people could conceivably buy this SOG Outdoor Package and use it for its intended purposes: the entrenching tool for digging foxholes and tiger traps, the hand axe for chopping firewood, and the camp saw for crafting a shelter or making IKEA furniture
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SOG Outdoor Gear – 3 Piece Set with Nylon Sheaths
Everything You Need to Know to Evaluate Printer Speed As we recently reported, the best way to judge a printer’s processor performance is to look at its print speeds (pages or images per minute). Like most things in life that’s easier said than done because if you’re shopping among different brands you need to make sure you’re comparing apples to apples
PrinTip: Printing With an Empty Color Cartridge Can Damage Your Printer If you think your color inkjet printer should print in black when a color cartridge is empty, you’re not alone. It’s reasonable to think your color printer can act like a monochrome printer when a color cartridge is empty, but you still have plenty of black ink. After all, your car still runs when you’re out of windshield fluid.
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Why Shouldn’t I Print in Black When a Color Cartridge Is Empty?
I mean, we already kinda knew that, but now Twitter backs it up. Or rather, a three year study by The College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University backs it up. The research team sampled over 300 million tweets in the U.S., mapped them based on the information provided by Twitter’s handy “Share Location” feature, and compared them against the ANEW list , which “provides a set of normative emotional ratings for a large number of words in the English language […] for use in studies of emotion and attention.” In other words it’s a list of what words are happy (yay!), sad (boo!), angry (WTF?!), or aroused (bacon!)
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New York Is Angry.
Google has some new updates to their Google Voice mobile apps for your Android and Blackberry phone fans (sorry iPhone fans – no update today for you!). According to Google : At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better.
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Google Voice Adds Faster dialing on Android and Blackberry devices
Printer News: Canon PIXMA MX870 Prints and Scans Wirelessly Canon has successfully catered to the home office for years with its PIXMA line of printers. The new PIXMA MX870 continues Canon’s trend of iterative refinement
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Canon PIXMA MX870 Designed to Appeal to Home Offices
I thought I’d share some TMC news about a very cool opportunity TMC is providing to startup companies. At the next Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO), TMC will offer startup companies the ability to pitch their products and services
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Attention All Startups in the VoIP Industry!
Reduced saturated fat (SFA) consumption is recommended to decrease coronary heart disease (CHD), but there is an absence of strong supporting evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of clinical CHD events and few guidelines focus on any specific replacement nutrient. Additionally, some public health groups recommend lowering or limiting polyunsaturated fat (PUFA) consumption, a major potential replacement for SFA. The overall pooled risk reduction was 19% (RR = 0.81), corresponding to 10% reduced CHD risk (RR = 0.90) for each 5% energy of increased PUFA.
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Increasing Diet Polyunsaturated Fat in Place of Saturated Fat Reduces Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Kerry Garrison, formerly with Fonality, but now with 888VoipStore, is going to be part of the trixbox CE training that is happening at the next ITEXPO in Los Angeles. It’s a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and learn the ins and outs of trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based distro.
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trixbox CE Training at ITEXPO
Today XO Communications launched their XO Enterprise SIP Savings Estimator , an online calculator to show users just how much money they can save by switching to SIP trunks. The online tool demonstrates how XO Enterprise SIP “Simplifies, Streamlines and Reduces Costs of Managing Voice Services Across Distributed Enterprise Networks”.
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XO Communications Offers SIP Savings Estimator Tool
Initiating metformin soon after diabetes diagnosis and while A1C is low might preserve β-cell function, prolong the effectiveness of metformin, reduce lifetime glycemic burden, and prevent diabetes complications.
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Start metformin early when diabetes type II is first diagnosed
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia is a rare genetic disorder in which both LDL-receptor alleles are defective, resulting in very high concentrations of LDL cholesterol in plasma and premature coronary artery disease. This study investigated the use of an antisense inhibitor of apolipoprotein B synthesis, mipomersen, to lower LDL cholesterol. Patients aged 12 years and older who were already receiving the maximum tolerated dose of a lipid-lowering drug, were randomly assigned to mipomersen 200 mg subcutaneously every week or placebo for 26 weeks.
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Mipomersen – antisense technology to lower LDL cholesterol
ooVoo told me they had recently commissioned a study with some interesting results, which will be released on Monday. A blind study conducted by a third party research firm revealed that ooVoo was preferred by 8 our of 10 Skype users.I couldn’t help but reminded of the famous Trident slogan/study which said 4 out of 5 dentists preferred sugarless gum. In fact, it’s exactly double! So is this study legit or manufactured?
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Blind Research Study Says Skype Users Prefer ooVoo
In the future, diabetics may be able to wear contact lenses that continuously alert them to variations in their glucose levels by changing colors – potentially replacing the need to routinely draw blood throughout the day. The non-invasive technology, developed by Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor Jin Zhang at The University of Western Ontario, uses extremely small nanoparticles embedded into the hydrogel lenses. These engineered nanoparticles react with glucose molecules found in tears, causing a chemical reaction that changes their color.
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Contact lenses change color when blood glucose increases in diabetics
Low-dose combination therapy with rosiglitazone and metformin was highly effective in prevention of type 2 diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, with little effect on the clinically relevant adverse events of these two drugs. Preventing type 2 diabetes with low-dose combinations: Lifestyle interventions aimed at reducing bodyweight, and use of metformin, thiazolidinediones, acarbose, and orlistat, reduce the risk of diabetes by 25—60% over 3—6 years The biological passport and doping in athletics: A biological passport monitors an athlete’s blood and body chemistry values over time to assess whether there has been a deviation from an established baseline, thus indirectly detecting illegal manipulation. A long look at obesity : Even with their primitive understanding of nutrition, our neolithic forebears somehow made the “right choices”, thriving on a wholesome diet of nuts, seeds, and fruits with the occasional piece of meat
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Preventing diabetes, biological passport for athletes and more from the Lancet
To prevent infections transmitted by acupuncture, infection control measures should be implemented, such as use of disposable needles, skin disinfection procedures and aseptic techniques. Acupuncture may be risky as needles are inserted up to several centimeters beneath the skin. In the 1970s and 1980s most infections associated with acupuncture were sporadic cases involving pyogenic bacteria.
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Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: bacterial infections, hepatitis B and C, even HIV