November 5th, 2009 by DrGwenn in Better Health Network, Health Tips
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There’s an epidemic at our malls: parents taking their small children up and down escalators in strollers of all sorts of sizes and shapes. I ended up behind one such parent yesterday and found strollers heading up and down all afternoon. Some were small, some large. Some had bags dangling off of them, others not. Sometimes parents had both hands on the handles, other times they were balancing the stroller and a drink or cell phone. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr Gwenn Is In*
September 26th, 2009 by KerriSparling in Better Health Network, Humor, True Stories
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You know you’re a diabetic when … you see what appears to be this:
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*This blog post was originally published at Six Until Me.*
April 2nd, 2009 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News
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An interesting case of electrical interference has been reported by Danish physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine. A patient with an implanted cardiac defibrillator was taking a shower when he got zapped twice for no apparent reason. The physicians, speculating on the cause of the events, sent an electrician to the man’s house to see if some type of electromagnetic interference could have been at fault. Turns out that a self-installed washing machine didn’t have its ground cable connected, turning house wiring into the washing machine’s private radio station.
More about the story at Discover Health News…
Article extract in NEJM: Inappropriate ICD Shocks Caused by External Electrical Noise
**This blog post was originally published at Medgadget.com**
