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£50,000 competition launched to find disabled entrepreneur by DeafBlog Patient Expert

Posted Mon 07 Jun 2010 9:12am From today, the search for disabled entrepreneur of the year begins - with a first prize of £50,000 offered. This major award, run by Leonard Cheshire Disability and sponsored by easyGroup Chairman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (pictured), was presented in 2009 to John Pickup and his company Amputees in Action, a business that sp ... Read on »

A CRAZY WORLD III by Erik Erichsen Posted Mon 12 Jul 2010 12:00am To lose a leg is catastrophic. There is no supply of prosthesis around and without a leg you cannot do the farming which is the only way to survive for 95% of the rural population. It is an old dream of mine to be able to supply our amputees with an artificial leg. Readymade prosthesis in different sizes left and right are avai ... Read on »

The Wireless Future of Medicine – The Forgotten Element of Meaningful Use -Eric Topol –TED 2010 (Video) by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Wed 24 Feb 2010 7:45am Here’s my equation for wireless – the data needs to go somewhere. If you are a regular reader here you have seen everything Eric Topol talks about and a lot more. What is cool is to see him wearing the stick on heart monitor. What we do lack here is knowledge and balance. Wireless devices are moving main stage into healthcare and what wor ... Read on »

The Next Phase of Accelerometers – Sensors In Healthcare that Detect Motion Like What’s in Your Iphone by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Thu 27 May 2010 10:59pm If you have an IPhone, then you know what I am talking about as it reacts to how it is positioned. This is a good article about the next wave that is up and coming and being promoted by HP, so I guess we can now say that soon we will have a “smart accelerometer” that can give even further detail on your activity. The video is a bit spooky wh ... Read on »

CareFusion, Cisco and Medtronic to Collaborate With West Wireless Health Institute on Technology – Additional Grants Award by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Sat 19 Jun 2010 11:37am If you have not heard of the West Wireless Health Institute, I have posted about some of their activity in the past. Also in the news this week about the institute, philanthropists Gary and Mary West will give $25 million to the West Wireless Health Institute, and this accounts for the 3rd donation. The West Wireless Health Institute has ... Read on »

Press Release: U.S. women set to swim across Atlantic by Roman M. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 07 Jan 2009 2:51pm January 7, 2009; Cape Verde Islands—U.S. swimmer Jennifer Figge will depart later this week from Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa in her attempt to become the first woman, and first American, to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Figge announced today from Sao Vicente in Cape Verde that her historic odyssey will support Volvic’s “Drink 1, ... Read on »

Dr. Hyman's Haiti Journal - Day 9: Catastrophe to Chaos by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 23 Jan 2010 7:15am It is nine days after the quake, and last night three gaunt Haitian medical students, their school destroyed, came up to me in the dark as I walked past the nursing school with 150 nurses still buried in the rubble, the smell of rotting flesh floating in the hot, heavy evening air. They have helped out for the last week at the hospital but had ... Read on »

Dr. Hyman's Haiti Journal - Day 6: Catastrophe to Chaos by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Sat 23 Jan 2010 7:15am Please note: This blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post a few weeks ago. It is nine days after the quake, and last night three gaunt Haitian medical students, their school destroyed, came up to me in the dark as I walked past the nursing school with 150 nurses still buried in the rubble, the smell of rotting flesh ... Read on »

The upside of going downhill part 2! by Louise Posted Tue 20 Mar 2012 5:26pm This piece is written by a member of Holland Bloorview's family advisory committee. Thank you to our FAC! Before children, my husband and I took yearly ski vacations. We looked forward to getting away and enjoying the great outdoors. We travelled near and far. We flew and we drove. We’d go anywhere where t ... Read on »

One Sick Group - The Deaf Wannabe by Robyn C. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:06am Back in the year 2000, someone pointed me in the direction of the Deaf Wannabe site on Yahoo… Eight years ago this group had a mere 30 people or so, not really big enough to take seriously, but now, in 2008, there’s 794 people subscribed. That’s an awful lot of sick people! For those that don’t know, this is a site for those that have a genuine i ... Read on »