Sunday, October 5, 2014

Teenagers from aspirational families are suffering from stress burnout.

The author and television personality criticised the 'third-world' mental health system available to teenagers, adding that children these days grow up in a 'risk-averse culture'.
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5 October 2014

Pill could replace injections (but is covered in tiny needles).

MIT researchers say the capsule coated with tiny needles can inject drugs directly into the lining of the stomach.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2777230/The-pill-replace-injections-just-try-not-think-fact-s-covered-tiny-needles.html

Woman who used a potato as a contraceptive.

The discovery was made when doctors attended to a 22-year-old woman in Colombia who had been complaining of abdominal pains.
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Saved from diabetic blindness - simply by sleeping in an eye mask.

The mask shines green light into the eye during sleep and could save the sight of thousands of Brits facing blindness through diabetic retinopathy - the UK's main cause of sight loss for young people.
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5 October 2014