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Necklace helps keep track of pills
U.S. researchers have created a sensor necklace that someday
may help people remember the last time they took their pills.
The MagneTrace records the exact time and date when specially
designed pills are swallowed and lets the user know if any
doses are missed, Maysam Ghovanloo of the Georgia Institute
of Technology said Wednesday in a news release. The necklace
contains an array of magnetic sensors that can detect when
pills containing a tiny magnet passes through a person's
esophagus. The sensors also can be incorporated into a patch
attached to the chest. "Forgetfulness is a huge problem,
especially among the elderly, but so is taking the medication
at the wrong time, stopping too early or taking the wrong dose,"
Ghovanloo said. "Studies show that drug noncompliance costs the
country billions of dollars each year as a result of re-
hospitalization, complications, disease progression and
even death." The research was published in the IEEE
Sensors Journal.
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Grand Canyon flooded to improve ecosystem
U.S. officials released a flood into the Grand Canyon to try
to undo damage caused by construction of the Glen Canyon Dam
in the 1960s. The man-made flood, started Wednesday, was to
continue for 60 hours at a rate of about 41,500 cubic feet
per second, the Interior Department said. The water released
from the power plant and bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam is
expected to push sand built up at the bottom of the Colorado
River channel into a series of sandbars and beaches along the
river. Scientists are monitoring how the high-flow releases
affect the well-being of native fish, particularly the
endangered humpback chub. "This experiment has been timed to
take advantage of the highest sediment deposits in a decade
and designed to better assess the ability of these releases
to rebuild beaches that provide habitat for endangered wildlife
and campsites for thousands of Grand Canyon National Park
tourists," Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said in a
statement. The water was released at a rate that would fill
the Empire State Building within 20 minutes, the agency said.
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Huge law enforcement database created
A huge database allowing federal, state and local law
enforcement officials in the United States access to hoards
of records is in the offing, officials said. The National
Data Exchange within the U.S. Justice Department system hooks
up millions of criminal investigative records from thousands
of law enforcement agencies stored in data warehouses, giving
investigators and analysts a powerful tool to combat crime and
seek out terrorist plots, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
"It's going from the horse-and-buggy days to the space age,
that's what it's like," said Sgt. Chuck Violette of the Tucson
police department, one of almost 1,600 law enforcement agencies
using a commercial data-mining system called Coplink, one of
several commercial information-sharing systems. The N-DEx
system is set to phase in as early as this month. When
operational, N-DEx, developed by Raytheon for $85 million,
will permit 200,000 state and local investigators and federal
counter-terrorism investigators to search millions of police
reports in some 15,000 state and local agencies, with a few
clicks of a computer mouse, the newspaper account said.
"The goal is to create a one-stop shop for criminal justice
information," Thomas E. Bush III, the FBI's assistant director
of the criminal justice information services division, told
the Post.
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