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Whoa. Follow the incredible PillCam through a body: http://curiosity.im/ThisIsPillCam

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Hangry explained.

The Science Of ‘Hangry’, Or Why Some People Get Grumpy When They’re Hungry Have you ever snapped angrily at someone when you were hungry? Or has someone snapped angrily at you when they were hungry? If so, you’ve experienced...

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What Are Uterine Fibroids? Learn about fibroid symptoms, treatments, and the causes of this common female problem. Plus, see the different types of fibroids and when to see a doctor.

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How will the human head transplant work? Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has said he intends to conduct the world’s first head transplant by 2017. Is it just science fiction?

Wow... make needles out of crystallized sugar?

This MIT Grad Is Changing Medicine With a Needle-Covered Pill

Progeria campaigner Hayley Okines dies at 17 Teenager from Bexhill, East Sussex, worked to raise awareness of condition that causes those affected to age eight times faster

How many right answers did you get?

Human Body Medical Health Quiz on MedicineNet.com Take the Human Body Quiz to evaluate what you know about systems and structures of the body and what makes your body function!

What It Means When Your Snot Is Green You're sick, you're blowing your nose into a tissue, and then...you look, right? Isn't green mucus supposed to mean something? Actually, your snot can come in a rainbow of colors, with a progression from white to yellow to green as your body fights infection.

Useful app... Only drawback is that the blind person should have a iphone or ipad with internet access

Lend Your Eyes to Help the Blind With This Smart App | Big Think Is it too complicated to squeeze helping others into your schedule? Be guilty no more. “Now, there is an app for that,” jokes Hans Jørgen Wiberg in his TEDxCopenhagen talk, before he introduces Be My Eyes, a simple and practical app that connects sighted with blind people around the world to help them with small daily tasks.

As nurses / healthcare influencers we can be a potential source of "CHANGE" in peoples health related lifestyle & behaviours. Any intervention taking up to two minutes that follows an “ask, advise, assist” structure will help nurses to build a brief intervention into their everyday work.

Building brief intervention into your everyday work All frontline nursing staff can incorporate brief behaviour change interventions into their clinical practice to reduce patients’ risk of long-term conditions.

Interesting read & how it really works

Mind over disability: Double amputee manages prosthetic arms by intuitive thought (VIDEO) Mind-controlled robotic limbs have become a reality at America's John Hopkins University, after a double amputee Les Baugh managed his new prosthetic arms with completely intuitive thought control.