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NASA Cyberskeleton to keep Astronauts fit enroute...
From Business Insider’s interview with the group developing a new exerce cyber suit to be tested on the International Space Station for a future mission to Mars: “The X1 is currently being evaluated by exercise physiologists at the NASA Johnson Space Center in order to determine its potential as an exercise device. The idea with the X1 is that, when compared to existing exercise...
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WatchWatch
WHOA: woman sees for the first time in 20 years using an Australian bionic eye. This is awesome. Full article here. 
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Accretive Health leaving Minnesota and has to pay...
I’m a little late in posting this, but I just wanted to shout out my pleasure that Accretive Health (the company that specializes in convincing sick patients to leave the ER) settled and agree not to work in Minnesota for 6 years. They’re also going to pay 2.5 million dollars, which doesn’t seem like that much.  And their stock is plunging too, which is fun. This is a company...
Aug 21st
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to...”
– Oliver Sacks, the New Yorker.
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BREAKING: Accretive Health Stock Down %28 (and...
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EVIL: Debt collectors in the ED and labor floor
From this incredible NYT article: “In March 2011, doctors at Fairview complained that such strong-arm tactics [by debt collectors dressed as staff] were discouraging patients from seeking lifesaving treatments, but Accretive officials dismissed the complaints…” I think it’s pretty terrifying that any physicians allowed this in their emergency room. Likewise for hospital...
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“We have tremendously more CT and MRI scanners than Canada per capita. People in...”
– Dr. Otis Brawley, as quoted in Atlanta Magazine, and cited on Boingboing.net.  I
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HIPAA joke
A: Knock Knock!
B: Who's there?
A: Can't tell you.
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