You forgot your toothbrush on vacation—should you borrow your spouse’s or skip it for the night? You get home late and you’re tired but starving. Do you grab a light snack that won’t be satisfying or eat a full dinner and go to bed on a full stomach? Got similar health dilemmas? Share them with us and we may solve them in an upcoming story!
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It sounds so simple: stick a straw in the can and drink, right? But as this fun video shows, it’s never quite that easy (okay, maybe it’s a little easier than this guy makes it look). But—thank goodness—there is a genius little trick that will have you sipping like a pro.
It’s called Halo Oral Antiseptic, and three quick sprays at the back of your throat—choose berry or citrus-flavored—protects you for six hours. A study at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio found the spray effective in killing 99.9 percent of infectious airborne germs.
Age may lead to experience in many things, but when it comes to the skills needed to pull-off intricate robotic surgery, youth may hold the upper hand—or the upper joystick, as it turns out.
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston held a face-off between surgeons-in-training and a bunch of high school sophomores and college students, pitting them against each other on a robotic surgical simulator. Results: The tenth graders (mean age 16) blew everyone away, followed by the college students (mean age 21). Dead last were the medical residents, whose age was a comparatively ancient 31. In the study, the high schoolers reported playing video games for an average of two hours a day, the college students four.
This wasn’t just some shoot ‘em up video game. The superior skills of the high school and college students on the surgical simulator included how much tension they put on their instruments, how precise their hand-eye coordination was, and how steady their grasping skills were when performing surgical tasks such as suturing, passing a needle, or lifting surgical instruments with robotic arms.
Take a look at this photo, and try not to sneeze. Using one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia created stunning 3D images of the virus, called a rhinovirus, that causes the majority of cold infections.
Two interesting reads for the beginning of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month:
• Comics for the Cure: Marvel Goes Komen-Pink
• Would You Get Rid of Your Breasts if You Didn’t Have Breast Cancer?
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