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Do you have the #MissingType?
The letters A, B and O are disappearing from signs, landmarks and company logos as part of the #MissingType campaign by the Australian Red Cross blood service. #MissingType, a global initiative to encourage people to donate blood, is being supported by well known Australian brands - including Qantas, Coles, NAB, the Sydney Opera House, the TV show Neighbours and Lifesaving New South Wales. [ + ]
Over the counter lasers can damage retinas
Laser pointers bought legally for less than $30 are a threat to eyesight – with one pointer found to be 127 times over the legal limit. [ + ]
Thomas Embling psych staff walk out
Workers from Victoria's Thomas Embling psychiatric hospital are calling for more staff to deal with an increase in the number of assaults at the facility. [ + ]
Consciousness after death? For a few minutes
Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness continues for at least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible. [ + ]
Even war has rules - hospitals are not targets
Hospitals and health workers are being targeted in war, with attacks in Yemen, South Sudan and Afghanistan. In Syria alone Médecins Sans Frontières supported health structures have been attacked over 60 times since January 2015. We refuse to accept that this is the new normal. Even war has rules. [ + ]
Drone delivers blood, stool samples from remote village
Only a few years ago flying drones were associated with dropping bombs. Now thanks to a company called Vayu, a drone designed to help bring medical care to remote places was successfully used to deliver clinical blood and stool samples from rural villages in Madagascar to a central laboratory for testing. There were numerous flights conducted to prove the viability of using the technology on a regular basis over hilly terrain. [ + ]
In Safe Hands
Hand injuries are the most common in the workplace; so why isn't more done to prevent them? [ + ]
Does flu make you feel sad?
Why does flu make us feel like we are failing at life? Viral infections have long been known to make the best of us feel moody, depressed and generally hopeless. A study in mice, published in Immunity, now reveals how the antiviral immune response alters brain activity. Upon infection, brain cells lining blood vessels produce a protein called CXCL10. This impairs neuronal firing in the hippocampus -- a brain region important in learning, memory, and mood. [ + ]
Meet the only human designed to survive on our roads
Cars have evolved a lot faster than we have. Our bodies are not equipped to manage the forces in most crash scenarios. This has prompted a new Victorian initiative to reduce road deaths and injuries. [ + ]
