More than three million doctors have downloaded an iPhone app which is replacing the stethoscope in UK hospitals.
The iStethoscope app, created by Peter Bentley at University College London, was originally developed as nothing more than a toy.
But now more than 500 users a day are downloading the free version of the application which experts say has already saved lives.
The Daily Mail reports:
A mother who lives in a three-bedroomed house with ten children and her partner has called for officials to give her two adjoining homes to accommodate her large family.
Donna Harrison said she has been asking social landlord Incommunities to allocate her family a bigger house for five years.
In response, the organisation has said it has a ‘very limited’ supply of homes with four bedrooms or more, several of which she has refused to move into.
Miss Harrison, from Bradford, moved into her home six years ago with five of the children and has since had another child.
She also cares for three other children, as well as her partner’s daughter. After refusing several homes that have been offered to her, she expects the taxpayer to cover the expense of two homes for her and her brood. The article fails to mention if Ms Harrison actually works, judging by the story she doesn’t. Whatever happened to people NOT having kids because they can’t afford to?
There’s studies for nearly everything. One that caught my eye was published on ScienceDaily. According to a Michigan State University psychologist who led the study, people are most likely to accept such falsehoods, both consciously and unconsciously, when subtle clues remind them of ways in which Obama is different from them, whether because of race, social class or other ideological differences.
A Pew Research Center poll in August 2010 found that 18 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim — up from 11 percent in March 2009 — even though he’s a practicing Christian.
Vegetables are good for you. Now more than ever, as addomg a variety of vegetables to one’s diet may help ward off the chance of getting lung cancer. Also, variety of fruits and veg may decrease the risk of squamous cell lung cancer. These study results were published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.