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Category Archives: Health

Yikes, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is Afraid of Cell Phones

Man, you gotta’ figure that when the Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN won’t hold a cell phone to his head there might just be something to that old rumor about tumors.  I wonder if Teddy Kennedy was a habitual cell phone abuser?  His particular type of tumor, a glioma, is featured in this [...]

Exercise, is the sweat really worth it?

New studies indicate that exercise may not be the end all answer for what ails us.  I’m 50 years old and ever since the Presidential Physical Fitness Awards back in grade school (the 60’s for those of you who are counting) I’ve been told that exercise leads to a full, healthier life.  And that’s [...]

New Surgical Tool Could Revolutionize Surgery

A grant of 2.1 million pounds ($4.17 million) has been awarded to a team at the Imperial College London for the development of a new surgical tool dubbed the ‘i-Snake’.  Essentially the i-Snake is a highly flexible, robotic tool which would allow for more complicated procedures to be done with what are essentially laparoscopic surgical [...]