The new application for smartphone intimidate any smoker

A new application for smartphones is designed to help smokers who have decided to put an end to a bad habit, it is not working due to some popular science texts and calls. Users see themselves before and after smoking.

How would your face look if in 18-20 years you would not have started smoking? They say that the nicotine skin and yellow teeth, appear premature wrinkles, early gray hair, bags under the eyes, thinning hair. Now all this can be seen directly on the screen of your smartphone. The new application, created by the British Mandatory Health Insurance Fund, enables "time machine" and give up smoking .

You upload your own photo and the screen shows that smoking will do to you for 20 years. The creators of the app called Smoking Time Machine ("Time Machine for smokers"), and its main goal - to help young people find a powerful motivation for the rejection of cigarettes. That is the frightening pictures are addressed primarily to those who give up smoking   not too late.

"Young people, and especially young people, as a rule, do not think of such terrible consequences of smoking, such as cancer or other lung disease, they do not think it will happen to them - says the creator of the application Keith Norman of the Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust. - But here they have the opportunity to see it yourself. See what happens to their faces. This truth is difficult to ignore. "

20 years of smoking is two decades effects on the body more than 4000 harmful chemicals that are part of the cigarette. And such a blow to the body really can not go unnoticed. (READ MORE)

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The victim of the accident will restore the person using the 3D-printer

British surgeons using 3D-printing technology for surgery for the reconstruction of the patient's face, the victim of an accident. Undamaged part of the person would take as a basis for "printing" damaged.

facial reconstruction

3D-technology is often called the future of medicine, because even their modern use is already producing fantastic results. One can only imagine what the doctors will achieve in the next 10-20 years, when these technologies from experimental become traditional. At the hospital, Morriston Hospital, located in Wales, Dr Adrian Sugar leads projects using "special effects" to create titanium implants.

facial reconstruction

With the help of 3D-printing surgeons conduct   facial reconstruction   Victims of road accidents. Printing is needed in order to comply with the facial symmetry, because one part of the patient's face was disfigured in the accident, while the second remained relatively healthy. It will form the basis for mirroring and the subsequent use of a unique 3D-printer Additive Manufacturing.

facial reconstruction

First image of the healthy parts of the face to boot into your computer, then the program will do the exact mirror copy, and 3D-printer will print the necessary operations for implants made of titanium. In addition, the technology provides surgeons detailed guidance about how to carry out the processing and reposition the facial bones with exceptional precision arithmetic. After the procedure the patient's face is perfectly symmetrical - without any distortions at one time or another.

Implants are made of specially created for the titanium medicine in Belgium, where one of the world's first plant for this 3D-printing. (READ MORE)

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The most implausible reasons stellar plastics

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Actress, singer, songwriter and writer Kristin Chenoweth , In her own words, makes a regular Botox injections only to relieve headaches. However, this is the most realistic excuse.

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Kiss of mother - child health guarantee

Mother gives a kiss newborn babies lifelong protection - immunity against sore throats and ear infections. This is indicated by data from studies of scientists from New Zealand.

Research University of Otago (New Zealand) conducted a series of studies to determine what the benefits obtained from the newborns a mother's kiss . The study involved women waiting children. Subsequently studied the health of their newborn babies. A group of scientists led by Dr. Tegga found that a kiss from the mother-to-child transmission is a certain bacteria. These bacteria produce babies immunity   a number of diseases - sore throats and ear infections.

Scientists themselves admit that before such studies have been conducted. They intend to continue to study this phenomenon in order to eliminate the factor of chance. So far, not tracked the health of children involved in the experiments. But scientists believe that kids can be the subject of future research. If they manage to confirm his theory mother's kiss It will give a new impetus to the development of Pediatrics. Young children will be protected from certain diseases to which they are most susceptible in the first months of his life.

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Deaths from liver disease increased by 40% in 10 years

Deaths from liver disease in the UK for 10 years has grown by 40%. Experts attribute this to the abuse of alcohol and unhealthy diets.

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A third of the victims liver disease   faced with this disease because of obesity, and two thirds due to alcohol abuse. Thus mortality from these diseases has been steadily growing in the UK, although in the rest of Europe reduced. Every year in Britain alone, excluding Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales on liver disease   died 11 000 people, although alcoholism, and obesity is a disorder that can be prevented.

Statistics published this Party Parliamentary Hepatology Group, whose members call on the UK government to take urgent measures in connection with the "catastrophic" increase in the number of people with a diseased liver. Public figures accuse the leaders of the British health in the absence of a coherent strategy to combat liver disease, despite the fact that this very strategy of charitable societies and experts have been working for more than three years.

"Liver disease is only one of the five major causes of death for residents of the UK, the number of victims is continuing to grow in the absence of a coherent government strategy to combat this phenomenon, - says the head of the parliamentary group of Hepatology, a member of parliament from the Conservative Party, David Amasa. - If now is not take urgent coordinated action, in less than a generation of liver disease has become the main killers in the country. And what a tragic loss of lives wasted, because almost all of these diseases can be prevented! "(Read More)

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Aspirin: Eats, Blogs

British scientists have found that with regular use of aspirin to prevent not only cardiovascular disease, some cancers and disease. However, it has and serious side effects such as internal hemorrhage.

Aspirin

As suggested by Professor University of London, Jack Cusick, perfectly healthy middle-aged people You should be regularly aspirin   - to a maximum of 75 mg per day. Scientists conducted a meta-analysis of a large the number of studies related to aspirin, showed that the drug can prevent the development of some common cancers the gastrointestinal system, as well as reducing mortality from them.

In people who have had cardiac disease, aspirin has become a mandatory first aid kit contents, as the lower dose of this medication reduces the likelihood of recurrence of the disease. AND Now, scientists have calculated that would have given reception Aspirin   in terms of prevention of cancer. If all the people in the UK aged 50 to 65 years of taking aspirin daily for 10 years, it is would save 6000 lives a year - 4000 men and 2000 women.

Within 20 years, can Britain would avoid 130,357 deaths from cancer, and 9473 have fatal heart attacks people who had never complained of heart. But there are aspirin significant side effects - medicine "thins" the blood that significantly increases the risk of internal bleeding and stroke. And for the same 20 years, with the widespread use of aspirin can expect 18,000 deaths from side effects of the medicine.

However, elementary arithmetic It shows that aspirin would save almost 10 times more lives than take. In every 1 000 people, taking aspirin for 10 years, accounting for 10 lives saved, and two died of side effects. (READ MORE)

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Doctors have called the best soap

We prove that residents of cities and towns of the skin is contaminated quickly due to the negative environmental factors - why the modern man can not do without soap in everyday life. However, many people choose soap for a pleasant smell. This is a mistake, experts say.

solid soap

According to doctors, the wrong choice of soap can cause a manifestation of allergies, even in people who are completely healthy skin. Navigate with the purchase of soap on its flavor, as many do - wrong. Seductive odor may result from the fact that in many soaps of aromatic and coloring substances which are potential allergens.

With caution, experts advise to choose and solid soap. This soap is best to cope with the mud, but it is the same alkaline, and therefore destructive to the natural lubrication of the skin fat. As a result, may appear irritation, dryness, itching. Solid soap, according to experts, it is better not to use contact with areas of the body where the skin is sensitive.

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