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Medical procedures, for instance, rack up massive energy tabs - especially surgeries, emergency services and pathology laboratory tests. "Enormous amounts of energy are required to build and run high-tech systems in common use - MRIs, CT scans, etc. - with many running 24 hours a day," says Pamela Gray, a trustee of the Transition Network, a U.K.-based organization that supports community-level initiatives to improve sustainability and combat climate change. Further, nearly all pharmaceuticals are made from petroleum derivatives, and so are medical materials (think rubber gloves and intravenous tubing). And then there's transportation: transferring equipment, supplies and lab samples...
...preventive medicine - a focus on wellness rather than illness - which would naturally lower the burden on the health-care system. He adds that physicians can further reduce their dependence on technology - and oil - by better developing their experiential and tactile knowledge, reclaiming a part of medicine's low-tech past. Much of the energy-intensive lab tests and scans doctors routinely prescribe are "redundant, unnecessary," he says. "An important element in care is whether you feel the person caring for you cares...
...employs two pumps, instead of one, more accurately mimicking the function of a real heart's two ventricles, as well as a system of miniature sensors that react to physical activity and automatically increase or decrease the heart rate and blood pressure. The prosthesis also uses new composite bio-tech materials, which are made from animal tissue and chemically treated to eliminate the risk of blood clots, Carpentier says, a problem that has plagued earlier alternatives. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...million firm that will build and eventually market the heart. Carmat (for Carpentier and Matra) is backed by EADS and a Paris-based private equity firm called Truffle Capital, plus $33 million from a French agency funding innovation. If the marriage of cardiac research and high-tech avionics sounds quirky to some, Carpentier says it's a natural match - the durability of his artificial heart depends on some of the same materials and technologies that keep planes in the sky for thousands of high-stress hours...
After the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April of last year, colleges and universities around the country responded by increasing their focus on student violence prevention programs, like Harvard’s new “Message Me” emergency alert system...