by: Katherine Stenger In 1849, California was considered to be the land of gold; today, it is a region filled with more toxins than shiny metals, a direct consequence of mining activity from the California Gold Rush nearly 200 years ago. Community members in the Sierra Nevada foothills had been particularly concerned for decades, worried […]
Hacked – When Life-Saving Technology becomes a Life-Threatening Risk
by: Katherine Stenger The withholding of a pacemaker shock after cardiac arrest. The delivery of an extremely high dose of insulin. The prevention of access to medical files in an emergency room. All three of these potentially fatal situations can be created with simple hacks to extremely vulnerable medical devices. For a growing number of […]
Sleep Patterns: The Key to Predicting Alzheimer’s
by: Doris Ma Sleep patterns could be the key to predicting one’s likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A recent study published in JNeurosci shows that the accumulation of β-amyloid and tau proteins are associated with the disease which could be an early indicator of AD. Two proteins are thought to be the culprits of […]