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- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty
- Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?
- Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- JAMA studies push the need for H1N1 flu shot
- Still fighting that war eh, Dana? :)Get over it man.Interesting piece of information:Recent news in Canada:"Four Canadian studies involved about 2,000 people, health officials told CBC News. Researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus."So......
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream
- Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- CDC Media Aggregator 1.1 (Mobile)
- CDC Media Aggregator application is a simple RSS aggregator of talks, news and other audio events of cdc. All Audio is available free at cdc.gov as RSS feeds. This application was designed to provide easier access to the following events like CDC featured podcasts, CDC featured podcasts, emerging infectious diseases,...
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- Red Book: Report of the committee on Infectious Diseases (RedBk) 12.0.3 (Mobile)
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- Software downloads 2009-09-25
- Hey, deniers, is hotter oceans not part of global warming? Just another hoax?
- hmm...I'd like to see Christian come and spread his 'czarist' nonsense on this page >.>Thanks for pointing out the 1998 flaw by the way =)Another non-researched postYou make claims based solely upon a news report without actually researching the data.Try this and learn something:www.drroyspencer.com/2009/08 and read the article titled "Spurious...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- Do we have a deadly date with El Nino?
- Seems to be drawing a long bowOk, so there was an El Nino in 1918 and a flu pandemic started in the same year. The so-called flu season essentially follows winter around the globe - it's nearly always flu season somewhere. Given that an El Nino event occurs every...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- CDC News Reader 1.6.4 (Mobile)
- CDC Centers for Disease Control News Reader grabs the top stories from the CDC and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch.The news feeds covers emergency preparedness, emergency text messages, feature series, flu updates, travel notices, environmental health, and public health matters. It features landscape viewable mode and share stories...
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- HHS News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- HHS Health and Human Services News Reader grabs the top stories from Health and Human Services and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers HHS News, Hurricane PSAs, Pandemic Flu news releases, FDA press releases, FDA recalls, food and cosmetics announce, cements, science selections, avian influenza,...
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- RFID-Integrated Technologies for Infection Control: Background and Technology Comparison on Key Adoption Considerations
- This whitepaper provides background on the issue of HAIs and the extent to which they can be addressed with RFID technologies. It evaluates the various types of RFID technologies available for infection control on the basis of reliability, flexibility, scalability and interoperability. The first part of this whitepaper will provide...
- White papers 2009-09-01
- How bad will swine flu be, really?
- Finally had a acquaintance who had swine fluAnd her symptoms were EXTREMELY minor. Chills, fever, etc..... just like I got last year with the regular flu.This is being SERIOUSLY overblown and it's time that the American people got smart and realized that they were being punked by WHO and the...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Ohio, what are you drinking?
- That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Do video games really make you fat, depressed?
- I don't know about this survey. I'll have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are plenty of overweight video gamers (we are the U.S.A. afterall), but it all depends on lifestyle and the video games being played. Take a look at the wii,...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- How-to: Hackintosh the HP Mini 1151NR
- The HP Mini 1151NR arrived in Verizon Wireless stores in May 2009 for $199.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate and new two-year data plan). The CNet review liked its "whisper-thin design and large edge-to-edge keyboard" but not its "total cost of ownership with two-year data contract."...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- STAT GrowthCharts 1.8 (Mobile)
- STAT Growth Charts implements the new July 2000 revision of the CDC pediatric growth charts for the United States (http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/). STAT Growth Charts allows the user to input age,sex,weight,height, and head circumference. It then calculates the exact percentile rank for Weight-for-Age, Height-for-Age, Weight-for-Height, and the new BMI-for-Age obesity indicator. A...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Twitter is so way over and done with - here is the proof
- Twitter is so way over and done with - here is the proofThe frenzy peaked with OprahI've experimented with Twitter myself and really see it as problematic.All it takes is just one--ONE blabber-mouth in your organization saying the wrong thing and you've got a major security breach or worse you...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Whistler 1.0 (Mobile)
- Whistler tracks product and food recalls, health updates including the latest swine flu news, car component recalls, environment issues and disaster news straight from your most reliable US government health, environmental, and industrial agencies. With the latest news updated on your device as they arrive, you can rest easy that...
- Software downloads 2009-05-15
- State AGs to meet with Craiglist over sex ads
- State AGs to meet with Craiglist over sex adsthe real question is...why is the prostitution illegal in first place?Make it legal and safe, tax it, and everyone is happy.It is oldest trade mankind can remember and US is trending toward a service based economy anyways.it's a scam"Craigslist has been under...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
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