October 11, 2022

Philips Ambient Experience solution at Children’s Medical Center Dallas helps calm young patients with behavioral health issues, winning multiple design awards

October 11, 2022 Philips receives Center for Health Design ‘Touchstone Award’ for exemplary use of evidence-based design in Ambient Experience solutions that help the emergency department at Children’s Medical Center Dallas improve care for pediatric patients with behavioral health issues Behavioral health solution recognized by three other awards and an honorable mention in the last […]

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Smashing Success: NASA Asteroid Strike Results in Big Nudge

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way. The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand kilometers. It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the

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White House: Get New Booster by Halloween for Safer Holidays

The White House on Tuesday said eligible Americans should get the updated COVID-19 boosters by Halloween to have maximum protection against the coronavirus by Thanksgiving and the holidays, as it warned of a “challenging” virus season ahead. Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, said the U.S. has the tools, both from vaccines and treatments, to largely eliminate serious illness and death from the virus, but he stressed that’s only the case if people do their part. “We are not helpless against these challenges,” he said. “What happens this winter is up to us.” The Centers for Disease Control

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Bodies of two ethnic Chin women discovered in Myanmar’s Magway region

Locals have discovered the bodies of two ethnic Chin women from Magway region’s Ngape township who went missing on Sunday. They were identified as 14-year-old Mai Hnoun Par Hla and 21-year-old Mai Shwesin Ye, both members of the Asho tribe from Bone Baw village, a resident – who did not want to be named for safety reasons – told RFA. “Two girls disappeared around 8 p.m. that night,” the local said. “They were returning from Goke Gyi village to Bone Baw village. They were found near Myay Lat village at around 5 p.m. on October 9.” Locals say both women

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Rohingya armed group posts celebration videos from Bangladesh refugee camps

Two Rohingya have been detained and Bangladesh authorities are searching for others after pictures and videos circulated on social media of an event apparently marking the sixth anniversary of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in several refugee camps. A Rohingya leader said the Oct. 9 event, called “Happy Day” was the first time the armed organization openly declared its presence in the Cox’s Bazar-area camps, which are home to about 1 million refugees. “Two Rohingya refugees have been detained and Bangladesh authorities are searching for others,” Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent of the Armed Police Battalion, told BenarNews. The two,

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