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Virtual Surgery for new surgeons

healthbolt.net | September 24th 2009 by wade

Here’s something you might not want to know. Most surgeons learn how to perform surgery on real live patients. Sure, they start off as students practicing on cadavers but mostly, they learn by performing actual surgical procedures under the guidanc read more

Go ahead …Swear the pain away

healthbolt.net | August 28th 2009 by wade

Here’s a study you can use. Swearing apparently plays an important role in relieving pain. The study, published last month in the NeuroReport journal, tested this theory on college students. Students are required to immerse their hands in cold wate read more

Leaving Hospital Against Medical Advice

healthbolt.net | August 25th 2009 by wade

Would you leave the hospital before your doctor says you are ready? It’s not something that I’d do. But according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, it’s becoming a common occurence as more and more people check out against medi read more

VA computer error causes health scare

healthbolt.net | August 25th 2009 by wade

There was a  health care SNAFU at the Veterans Administration early this month. A computer coding error by the Veterans Administration led to more than 1,800 Gulf War veterans being sent letters informing them that they had amyotrophic lateral scle read more

10 things dead bodies have done

healthbolt.net | August 22nd 2009 by wade

Death – it happens to all of us…eventually. And when it does, the usual chain of events is a funeral and/or where you are either buried or cremated, followed by a period of mourning for those you left behind. But, according to this fascinatin read more

Babies in 3-D

healthbolt.net | August 21st 2009 by wade

What do you think of 3-D ultrasounds of babies in the womb? Is it, as some supporters claim, early bonding or is it in fact simply entertainment for a ‘can’t wait’ generation of parents? It’s a controversial procedure that is experiencing a s read more

World Mosquito Day

healthbolt.net | August 20th 2009 by wade

August 20th is World Mosquito Day. It was on this day back in 1897 the link between mosquitos and malaria was first established. Army doctor Ronald Ross, based in India, discovered this tremendous fact while dissecting the stomach tissue of a anophel read more

PETA’s latest target – Fat Women?

healthbolt.net | August 20th 2009 by wade

PETA’s at it again. In an attempt to encourage people to go vegetarian, they have introduced a new billboard campaign featuring an obese bikini clad woman alongside this slogan “Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian”. Yet again, PETA read more

Warning: Yawning Could Get You Jail Time

healthbolt.net | August 17th 2009 by wade

It’s a strange world where a person can end up with jail time for the simple and often involuntary act of yawning. But what’s even stranger is that while the yawner was being given jail time, the actual defendant, who plead guilty to a felony dru read more

Brits Too Tired for Sex

healthbolt.net | August 14th 2009 by wade

Feeling too tired for sex? Well, if you’re living in Britain you are not alone. A recent study by Nuffield Health, a non-profit organization, has found that on the whole, Britain has turned into a ‘couch potato nation’, too lazy to get up and c read more

Saudi Man Orders Golden Penis Stretcher

healthbolt.net | August 12th 2009 by wade

What’s a medical devices company, that promotes itself as selling  the world’s number one penis extender,  to do when presented with an order for a 18 carat gold penis extender worth nearly 50,000 dollars? They could ignore it or they could f read more

Flip-Flops Can Turn Deadly

healthbolt.net | August 11th 2009 by wade

Any flip flop wearers out there? If so, here’s a study you  might want to consider. Two reporters living in New York City recently walked around the city for four days wearing flip-flops. They took numerous train trips, walked through Prospect Par read more

Creating artifical bone from wood.

healthbolt.net | August 10th 2009 by wade

Italian scientists have created a new procedure to turn blocks of wood into artificial bones. It starts with taking a block of wood  and heat it up until it turns to pure carbon (in other words charcoal).  They then spray calcium over the carbo read more

Sugar coated pills not such a sweet deal

healthbolt.net | August 8th 2009 by wade

Medications are often sugar coated to prevent the medicine from causing, in particular, gastric upsets in those swallowing the pills. Now a new study is reporting that the very ‘sugar coating’ that is protecting the body might itself be bad for t read more

A ‘Smile Scan’ that rates your smile

healthbolt.net | August 7th 2009 by wade

I don’t know about you but I always respond better to someone who is smiling, be it family, friend, or stranger. But can we expect everyone to smile all the time. Is that even possible? And would we really want to be constantly surrounded by smilin read more

The Air That We Breathe

healthbolt.net | August 5th 2009 by wade

Think that the air inside your house is safer to breathe than the air outside ? Better think again. According to this fascinating, yet scary report by WebMD, the air in our houses probably isn’t any better for us than the air out in the community read more

TripAdvisor’s Top 5 Germiest Attractions

healthbolt.net | August 2nd 2009 by wade

With swine H1N1 flu constantly making front page news, travellers have got germs on the brain. According to a recent TripAdvisor site poll of nearly 5,000 travellers, a third of them are being more ‘germ aware’ and are washing and disinfecting th read more

‘What’s on my food’ - a searchable database

healthbolt.net | August 1st 2009 by wade

You might not see them, but pesticides are everywhere - on our food, washed or not; in our bodies, even years after exposure: and in our environment, having travelled miles by wind, water and dust. But finding out what pesticides might be on your foo read more

Chocolate for the brain

healthbolt.net | July 31st 2009 by wade

Last month, over 350 medical professionals, computer experts and entrepreneurs gathered for the fifth annual Games for Health Conference in Boston and discussed out topics such as how computer games could boost patients’ health. There were even read more

Surgery’s Robotic Future.

healthbolt.net | July 28th 2009 by wade

Robots might be the future of surgery, but it wasn’t always this way. Surgery was once very primitive and extensive.  Anyone interested in the not only the history of surgery but also it’s future should watch this fascinating TED talk b read more

The Keeler Migrane Method Q&A

healthbolt.net | July 24th 2009 by wade

Most of us have suffered from them at one time or another - a mind-numbing pain, or a sharp one right between the eyes, or the throbbing of your occipital lobe - the dreaded migrane. Some of us are lucky enough only to have had one or two. Others ha read more

Healthbolt Funtimes: The Joy of Music

healthbolt.net | July 22nd 2009 by wade

These days, you never know what’s around the corner. But the last thing that most of these commuters was expecting was the railway speaker’s blasting out ‘Do-Re-Mi’ from the Sound of Music and seeing, one by one, people joining in and singing read more

Blame nitrites for rising disease rates?

healthbolt.net | July 17th 2009 by wade

A new study out is suggesting that the rising rate of diabetes, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease is linked to nitrites and similar compounds that are found in so many of our everyday products. Sodium nitrite is commonly used to preserve and c read more

Childbirth via YouTube

healthbolt.net | July 16th 2009 by wade

Childbirth videos are nothing new. They’ve been screened at pre-natal birthing classes since the 1970s. But they are mostly dated and often highly edited so as not to offend or upset expectant parents. Now there’s a category of childbirth videos read more

Nurses work for free plastic surgery

healthbolt.net | July 15th 2009 by wade

A recent New York Times article highlights to the growing nursing shortages around the world. Seems an understaffed Prague clinic has been offering liposuction, breast augmentation, and tummy tucks as incentives to get nurses to work there. All they read more

Hospital Care Varies Across Nation

healthbolt.net | July 10th 2009 by wade

No two hospitals are the same - in architecture, in decor, or even in ability to treat various diseases and illnesses. But one would assume that acute care of heart attacks and heart failure would be the same across the board. Not so, according to a read more

Are you living in a “fat’ state?

healthbolt.net | July 8th 2009 by wade

Have you seen the new CDC report on the nation’s waistline? Apparently, it show that when it comes to weight, there is no shrinkage. Some state may be holding steady but the major seem to be growing. For the report,  400,000 American adults provi read more

Medical Marijuana’s Warning Label

healthbolt.net | July 5th 2009 by wade

Based on numerous research studies that illustrated the unique benefits of marijuana in counteracting the pain, nausea and  the “wasting-effect” that often often occurs in the late stages of AIDS and cancers, Californian’s voted in 1996 to leg read more

A Toilet Made out of Poop?

healthbolt.net | July 4th 2009 by wade

Check out this innovative low-cost, low-tech concept waterless toilet system created by industrial designer Virginia Gardiner. This waterless toilet, aptly named LooWatt, is a closed-loop management system that will recycle human waste and eventually read more

Casino workers and second hand smoke

healthbolt.net | July 2nd 2009 by wade

Despite all the smoking bans in place, there are still some places, such as casinos, where workers are still consistently exposed to second hand smoke. A new study, funded by the Flight Attendent Medical Institute, finds that casino workers face high read more