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You may want to save your smelly socks – in the name of science. Malaria, a parasite derived from Italian phrase for “Bad Air,” may have met its match in stinky foot odor, of all places.

Since 1897, when mosquitoes were first tied to transmission, health officials have struggled to combat the tropical disease with bed nets, citronella, insecticides and drugs. The answer may be closer than anyone had thought – our feet.

If a person wants to reduce the risk of heart disease, often times they will reduce consumption of red meat. Fat from red meat is a known contributor to heart disease and heart complications, but is the fatty part of red meat the only thing you need to worry about?

Recent studies show it is not.

Imagine a world where you can inject yourself once with a medicine that detects and automatically releases treatment into your blood stream – for days at a time. The medical world no longer needs to just imagine it.

While human trials have not yet begun, this is wonderful news for the estimated 25.8 million U.S. children and adults that live with high blood sugar levels. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of Americans with diagnosed Diabetes has more than tripled from 5.6 million in 1980 to 20.9 million in 2011.

According to the ECRI Institute, industry experts forecast that by 2018, 75% of cardiovascular surgeons will be utilizing a Hybrid Operating Room. With that prediction only five years away, many hospitals are researching what exactly it means to upgrade to the hi-tech alternative from traditional operating rooms. Upgrading to a Hybrid OR means incorporating lead-lined walls to protect against radiation, having 15’ to 16’ ceilings, supportive enough equipment booms, and finding room for an expanded surgical team as well as 100+ different medical systems and devices.