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The Lazarus Effect

It costs about 40 cents a day to provide a person with life-saving antiretroviral medication.
Watch “The lazarus Effect”, a 30-minute documentary following the story of HIV positive people in Africa, and be sure to DONATE.

9 August 2010 | medicine | No Comments

Super Sexy Abdominal Thrust

Here we go again….a new instruction video from Fortnight Lingerie.
Hey girl, you choking

8 June 2010 | design, humor, internet, medicine | No Comments

Super Sexy CPR

Company called Fortnight Lingerie has launched an interesting campaign for their products.
What they did was shoot a short educational CPR video. Some procedures in it aren’t exactly correct, but nevertheless it is very educational
Hmmmm, let me see that again……

19 May 2010 | humor, internet, medicine | No Comments

G for Geneva, G for Gold

I just came back home from 38th Exhibition of Inventions Geneva held in Geneva, Switzerland. Among around a thousand inventions, including 55 from class M (Medicine, Surgery, Hygiene, Orthopedics, Materials for the handicapped), I have demonstrated my CPR device (you can see it in my presentation from Amsterdam). The whole experience was truly fantastic and [...]

24 April 2010 | design, iphone, medicine, science | 3 Comments

Ladies of the night to use AEDs

A well known Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, writes about an interesting initiative among prostitutes in the Ticino region of Switzerland. Lugano, a city in this region, is known to be somewhat of a sex capital with more than 38 sex clubs, which are frequently visited by man from neighboring Italy. Some of these man [...]

21 February 2010 | medicine | No Comments

Video of My Mobile Monday Talk is Online

Organizers have published the video of my talk from recently held Mobile Monday Amsterdam event titled Mobile Health. Be sure to watch it and let me know what you think.

Mobile Monday Amsterdam now has their own YouTube channel, so you can watch all those brilliant talks from their previous and future events.

3 February 2010 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | 8 Comments