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Posts Tagged ‘medical’
Green living, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Jun 16th, 2010,
When it comes to medical care, most of us have no idea how easy we really have it. People will complain about waiting in the emergency room or waiting room area (it has that name for a reason); they’ll complain about insurance or medical bill costs; and they’ll complain about the latest health reform. Guess what. Some people in the world don’t have access to any of that. Some people don’t even have access to the most basic and common vaccines. However, Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) is trying to change that—and you can help. You see, a lot of vaccinations…
Tags: Appropriate Technology Collaborative, ATC, contest, health care, medical, NASA’s Tech Briefs, refrigeration, Solar Vaccine Refrigerator, vaccines, vote
Climate Change, Green living, Pollution, Recycling, Science & Technology, Apr 27th, 2010,
Over the years, we’ve heard horror stories of people finding medical syringes washed up on beaches, in the ocean, and other unusual places. They’ve posed a threat to the environment and general safety for quite some time. Luckily, one company has come up with a way to recycle syringes and put them to good use. Sharps Compliance has created PELLA-DRX—a type of building material made from recycled syringes and other medical waste. Now, don’t be alarmed, the Texas-based company assures that the product is safe to use. Here’s a snippet from their website to explain what, exactly, PELLA-DRX is made…
Tags: cement, medical, Pella-DRX, Recycling, Sharps Compliance, syringes, waste
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Science & Technology, Apr 25th, 2010,
Climate Change is becoming a growing concern when it comes to health issues. Last week, a group of federal agencies issued a report on the threat climate change poses to health, analyzing what areas need to be studied. The report, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, basically states that the climate will force people to “negotiate with their changing environment as never before to find ways to reshape it both for short-term protection and long-term alleviation of health consequences”. Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, commented: “To mitigate and adapt to the health effects of climate change, we…
Tags: Climate change, global warming, Health, medical, research, study
Green living, Science & Technology, Apr 6th, 2010,
US residents have been rather upset about the new health reform lately and understandably so. However, there is at least one positive piece of health related news to report: The largest nonprofit HMO in the US is going solar. Kaiser Permanente is based in Oakland, California, and has nearly 200,000 employees and physicians, plus over 400 offices and medical centers. The solar panels will be installed on 15 of their hospitals, offices and other facilities throughout California by 2011. They will be installed by San Francisco based solar power company, Recurrent Energy. This isn’t the first solar power installation for…
Tags: Health, Kaiser Permanente, largest nonprofit HMO in the US, medical, Recurrent Energy, renewable energy, solar panel installation, solar power
Green living, Health, Politics, Mar 23rd, 2010,
As an American who has lived in various European countries during the last ten years, I have an unusual, but perhaps insightful perspective on various health care systems. The cheapest and most efficient health care I ever experienced was during my teenage years and was provided by the US military, in the form of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Washington, DC. They weren’t cushy and had lousy magazines, but these massive mega-mall style centers provided everything from GPs to specialists to filling prescriptions to hospital care at no cost to the patient…
Tags: America, American, bill, care, conflict of interest, health care, hospital, insurance, medical, private, profit, Sweden, system, US
