Physiotherapists and podiatrists in England are to get the right to prescribe medicines by themselves.
Ministers agreed to the change in the law after carrying out a consultation, but it will be 2014 before it is fully rolled out.
When physios and podiatrists do start prescribing they will become the first in the world to be given such powers.
And it will mean patients do not have to go back to GPs to get drugs such as anti-inflammatories and painkillers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While Americans worry every year about getting a flu shot or preventing HIV/AIDS, the deadlier silent is actually Hepatitis C; killing over 15,000 people yearly in the US since 2007 and the numbers continue to increase as the carriers increase in age. While there is no vaccine, there is hope in nanoparticle technology.
The breakthrough came from a group of researchers at the University of Florida, creating a nanozyme
that eliminates the Hep C 100% of the time; before now, the six-month treatment would only work about half the time. The particles are coated with two biological agents, the identifier and the destroyer; the identifier recognises the virus and sends the destroyer off the eliminate the mRNA, which allows Hep C to replicate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Make It Right is proud to announce the completion of the Frank Gehry-designed, New Orleans’ duplex in the Lower 9th Ward. The colourful, LEED Platinum home is part of an affordable and sustainable community that is currently being developed by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation within the NOLA neighbourhood most devastated from Hurricane Katrina — via ArchDaily
Soft watercolour painting of a little orange cuttlefish. Painted on 7″x5″ (17.8×12.7 cm) cold press watercolour paper. Signed by the artist — via Etsy
Police across several states have warned Australian mobile users of a text message that threatens death unless $5000 is paid.
NSW Police said they did not believe the text, which was sent to a large number of people
this morning, posed a genuine threat and said they were investigating its source — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On the face of it, this late Victorian nine-bedroom house in Oldbury, Bridgnorth, Shropshire doesn’t need a lot of work. But go inside and you’ll see it needs more than just a lick of paint.
Not massively more though — and you do get an awful lot of house for your cash. Described as substantial
, this detached property is situated in one of Bridgnorth’s best residential areas
and sat within two acres of grounds. Yes, your very own estate.
If you want it, offers of around £650,000 are invited — via WowHaus
Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.
Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,
says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work. The project is described today in Nature Biotechnology1 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via supersonicelectronic
German graffiti artist, Martin Heuwold aka MEGX, has painted a bridge with an area of 250 square meters to look like it was made from Lego. The project took Heuwold four weeks to complete, with the help of city officials — via Megx
When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This meant we couldn’t choose our own health coverage, or even opt out if we wanted too. It also meant that abortion was covered by our taxes, something I had always believed was horrible. I believed based on my politics that government mandated health care was a violation of my freedom.
When I got pregnant shortly after moving, I was apprehensive. Would I even be able to have a home birth like I had experienced with my first 2 babies? Universal Health Care meant less choice right? So I would be forced to do whatever the medical system dictated regardless of my feelings, because of the government mandate. I even talked some of having my baby across the border in the US, where I could pay out of pocket for whatever birth I wanted. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that Midwives were not only covered by the Universal health care, they were encouraged! Even for hospital births. In Canada, Midwives and Dr’s were both respected, and often worked together — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google announced on Friday that it had acquired Sparrow, the popular email application for iOS and OS X for an undisclosed amount.
According to CNN Money, a Google spokeswoman said that the search giant will keep Sparrow up and running, and thought it will continue to support the application, it doesn’t plan to offer any significant updates in the future.
The Sparrow deal is Google’s fifth this year and will add engineering talent that’s sure to be useful to Google, Information Week reported.Sparrow’s co-founder and CTO Hoa Dinh Viet used to work for Apple, on iCal and iSync, and for Amazon, on its Kindle e-reader.
The five employees at Google will work on new projects for Gmail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prosecutors in Chile are investigating about 60 schools in the capital, Santiago, over allegations that pupils were sexually abused.
The investigations come after reports of child sex abuse in schools and day care centres increased markedly this year.
Most of the schools are in Santiago’s affluent eastern areas — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of telco consultants and engineers in Victoria is planning to launch a not-for-profit internet service provider in an attempt to provide cheap access to the National Broadband Network for like-minded people.
The nascent group, dubbed No ISP
, gained cooperative status under Victorian law earlier this month, enabling them to recruit members and provide services without the financial requirements of a standard company structure.
It will offer plans on the NBN with minimal margins, facilitated by near-zero costs, non-existent staffing and none of the support or service structures now commonplace in the telco and ISP industries.
In effect, No ISP plans to offer NBN as a utility, rather than a service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a string of directorships controlling his News Corporation’s UK newspapers.
Mr Murdoch, 81, quit directorships at NI Group Ltd, NewsCorp Investments and Times Newspaper Holdings on Friday.
News Corp plans to split into two firms, separating its newspaper and book publishing interests from its now dominant TV and film enterprises.
Mr Murdoch is expected to chair both businesses but to be chief executive only of the TV and film side.
News International has sought to play down the significance of the resignations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Louis Vuitton Voyagez Tambour Chronograph Edition II is available in 44 mm steel or rose gold (limited edition of respectively 888 and 88 copies) and features a triple-circle tachymeter scale. The small subdial at 3 o’clock is the normal time seconds; the larger red centre-set hand is the chronograph seconds; the small red central hand marks chronograph minutes — via Perpetuelle
The lure of the salt at Bonneville Speedweek is strong, and two years ago, the bug bit Vincent Prat of the French Southsiders MC collective. This year, he’s returning with his own motorcycle to ride, the extraordinary Triton you see here — via Bike EXIF
The Hanoi Museum [gmp Architekten] is embedded in a park with ample water features, where visitors already encounter exhibits from the history of Hanoi and reconstructed traditional Vietnamese villages on entering the museum landscape.
Within the square building, a central circular atrium links an entrance level with the three exhibition levels. These are arranged as terraces projecting further outwards on each higher floor, forming an inverted pyramid — via ArchDaily
Have you ever taken a look at the list of functions available in PHP? I just counted 5025 on the PHP quick reference page. Granted, it depends on what extensions you have enabled, but still: that’s one heap of functions. While I can’t show you every one of them, if you’re new to the language, I’ll introduce you to seven really handy ones in this quick tip — via Nettuts
Fans still holding tickets for a cancelled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.
The Who’s 1979 concert in Providence was cancelled by then-Mayor Buddy Cianci, who cited safety concerns after a stampede before a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, killed 11 people. The band hasn’t been to Providence since.
The Who this week announced it will end its latest tour in Providence on Feb. 26 at the same venue where its show was cancelled 33 years ago, now called the Dunkin Donuts Centre.
General Manager Lawrence Lepore said on Thursday the venue will honour tickets from the cancelled 1979 show. Lepore said many ticket holders got refunds for the cancelled show in 1979, but others may have held on to their tickets as memorabilia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Back in 2008, Boston
Bill Hansbury was learning to live with a prosthetic after losing his leg to an infection. That’s when he met Jake Bainter, who was about to have his right leg amputated. The two struck up a friendship, despite a wide gap in their ages — Hansbury was 70, and Bainter was 7.
The pair recently discussed their friendship, and other topics, during a visit to StoryCorps in St Petersburg, Florida.
Boston Bill, tell me about the day that we met,
says Jake, now 12.
Well, that day, I had just regained the ability to ride my bike,
says Hansbury, 74. And here I am, coming up to a stop sign. I don’t know what happened, but I could not get my feet out of the pedals. So, I took the bicycle over to the curb. And that’s when the car pulled up.
That was four hours before my amputation,
Jake says. We were driving to the hospital, and we saw on the side of the road, a guy with a prosthetic leg. And I remember pulling around up to the curb and meeting you
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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