High-tech contact lenses closer to reality, Cyborgs of the future beware: Humans are working on computerized contact lenses with display technology.
"Some day maybe we'll have full-fledged streaming in your contact lenses," said Babak Amir Parviz, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington who co-authored a paper describing the computerized new contact lens in the latest issue of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. contact lenses read emails text, Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes,

Healthy alternatives to Thanksgiving dinner, Who wants to be stuffed this holiday season with a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner? If the thought of cooking a turkey for hours and spending a small fortune on dinner ruffles your frugal feathers, then give these Thanksgiving menu ideas a try.

With this menu I’ve put together an easy to prepare, low fat, and more frugal alternative to Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Some of these simple recipes are also awesome for those cooking a first Thanksgiving dinner. Since Thanksgiving in Canada has passed, I’ll share my meal with my American friends.

Thanksgiving dinner consumption + 5,000 calories, Thanksgiving is a time for family, gratitude, and, of course, food. The typical holiday meal can have more than 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat, according to the Caloric Control Council. That's almost three days worth of food for most of us! Butter, cream and white bread seem to be lurking in almost every dish, and the meal never seems to end.

Fake doc gives patient cement injections? Ddoctor cement injection A Miami Gardens transgender woman is facing charges of practicing medicine without a license after police say she injected a patient's rear with everything but the kitchen sink in an illegal cosmetic surgery procedure.

Fatal painkiller overdoses hit record, Nearly 15,000 Americans died from an overdose of prescription painkillers in 2008, a record rate that has outstripped fatalities from illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin combined, health officials said on Tuesday.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that as of last year 12 million Americans were using prescription opioid or narcotic pain relievers, such as Vicodin, OxyContin and methadone, for the high they cause instead of their true medical purpose, or without a legitimate prescription. painkiller overdose record, OxyContin most commonly abused painkiller,

Aspirin Colon Cancer, Two aspirin a day may cut the risk of colon cancer by more than half in people who are predisposed to these types of tumors, new research suggests.

And two tablets of 300 milligrams each also cut the risk of other tumors related to Lynch syndrome, a major form of hereditary colon and other cancers, according to research published in the Oct. 28 online edition of The Lancet.