Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

28 May, 2011

Heart Defibrillator

At Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), I saw this strange looking red hearts signage and upon closer look, it is an emergency heart defibrillator. I do hope that there are enough medical officers among the passengers that can fully utilized the gadget. For non medical personnel such as me, I can only look at the gadget and not sure on how to use it.

Heart Defibillator

Picture below shows a close up of the defibrillator. I is confirmed that the heartstart can only be used by qualified personnel among the airport employees.
Heart Defibillator

09 September, 2009

Contraceptive Myth

Half-used blister pack of Levlen®EDImage via Wikipedia
I am quite surprised about the outcome of a UK survey which revealed that myths about contraception may be widespread.


The survey found out that one in five women said they had heard of kitchen items, including bread, cling film and even chicken skin, being used as alternative barrier methods.

Others had heard food items such as kebabs, Coca-cola or crisps could be used as oral contraceptives.

The survey questioned 1,000 women aged 18 to 50 and was carried out by market research company Opinion Health, sponsored by Bayer Schering Pharma.

The survey indicates that appropriate information needs to be readily accessibly to the public about the availability of different methods of contraception, about their advantages and disadvantages.





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