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06Jan/16

App differentiates a baby’s crying sounds

January 6, 2016InnovationApp Store, Babycare, Behavior, Breastfeeding, Chang Chuan, Chang Chuan-yu, Chen Si, Childhood, Crying, Emotion, Guo, Guo Young-ming, Human behavior, Human development, Infancy, Infant, Infant Cries Translator, Infant crying, Infant feeding, ITunes, national taiwan university hospital, pain, Taipei, Taiwansmbale

A Taiwanese research team has invented a new mobile application designed to differentiate between the varying sounds a baby makes when crying.

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20Jul/15

Chimaera device paves way for wireless pain relief

July 20, 2015InnovationBiological engineering, Biomedical engineering, Cambridge, CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS, Google, GOOGLE INC., head, Headaches, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Implant, Implants, Medical technology, Medicine, Migraine, Neurostimulation, Neurosurgery, Neurotechnology, pain, pain management, Prosthetics, Simon Karger, Surgeon, Surgery, Technology/Internet, Tissue engineering, United Kingdom, wireless pain managementsmbale

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, UK (REUTERS) – A new prototype surgical device – called Chimaera – aims to put wireless pain management into patients’ hands.
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09Mar/15

France debates ‘deep sleep’ option at end of life, no euthanasia

March 9, 2015MedicineAnimal euthanasia, Assisted suicide, Belgium, Death, Disability rights, Ethics, Euthanasia, France, François Hollande, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Homicide, Jean Leonetti, Jean-Luc Romero, Legality of euthanasia, Medicine, Netherlands, pain, Palliative care, Palliative medicine, Palliative sedation, Right to die, Sedation, Social Issues, Stephane Mercier, Suicide, Switzerland, Terminal illness, VILLEJUIF, Vincent Lambert, Voluntary euthanasiasmbale

Some say it’s euthanasia, others say it’s not enough, French legislators are to start examining a draft law which would give the right to “deep and ongoing sedation” until death for terminally ill patients.

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