Monday, May 15, 2017

Powershell commands - Disable or uninstall SMB v1


#  To run powershell as Admin
Start-Process powershell.exe -Verb runAs

#  To display Server Message Block Configuration
Get-SmbServerConfiguration

#  Disable SMBv1 Protocol
Set-SmbServerConfiguration -EnableSMB1Protocol $false -Force

#  Remove SMBv1 Protocol
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName SMB1Protocol -Remove

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Critical Illness Insurance

買危疾保16年 腸癌男有供冇賠
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/breaking/20161207/56013690

Cancer Classification Systems
(1)  DUKES
(2)  TMNS


直腸癌無擴散 危疾保拒賠80萬
http://topick.hket.com/article/1406227/%E7%9B%B4%E8%85%B8%E7%99%8C%E7%84%A1%E6%93%B4%E6%95%A3%20%E5%8D%B1%E7%96%BE%E4%BF%9D%E6%8B%92%E8%B3%A080%E8%90%AC


AIA醫保索償出「辣招」 向醫生發信指照腸鏡、白內障不賠入院費

https://www.hk01.com/sns/article/72988
由友邦保險發出的信件,內容強調醫療保險住院賠償批出與否,需視乎住院是否符合其公司所作「醫療所需」的定義,即是否有必要性。信件清楚列明,「簡單」的程序,例如可以在日間醫療中心進行的腸鏡、胃鏡及白內障手術,住院費用將不獲賠償。可成功作入院索償的情況僅得4種,首先是需要全身麻醉(不包括監察麻醉);第二是只可以在醫院進行,而不可以在日間醫療中心進行的程序;第三是有其他重症病人;第四是列明的7種病症,以及5種急症,例如肺炎、中風等。

Friday, January 1, 2016

Tissue engineering - cartilage

Cartilage growing to rebuild body parts 'within three years' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-35140916

Monday, October 12, 2015

Biomedical Technology - Google

2015 - Google pairs with Sanofi to move diabetes patients to develop smart insulin delivery devices, smart measurement devices, and an interface and an integrating platform that helps physicians and patients see how they’re doing,

2014 - Google agreed to work with Novartis to develop contact lenses that use tiny sensors to read blood-sugar levels from tears.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/google-pairs-with-sanofi-to-move-diabetes-patients-to-cloud


2014 - Google is developing disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via a swallowed pill.  A wrist-worn sensor will monitor the blood for the unique traces of cancer.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29802581

2014 - Google acquired a company that offer a spoon to counteract the tremors caused by Parkinson's disease.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/25/google-launches-smart-spoon-shaking-hands-liftware

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Biomedical Technology and Biomemetics Updates


(1)   Device to regulate steady delivery of drug (2015-09)

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662651-medical-technology-new-devices-regulate-steady-delivery-drugs-within?frsc=dg%7Cd

(2)  Biomechanics: Replacing a propeller with a flapping fin (2015-09)
Adrian Thomas, a professor of biomechanics at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662643-biomechanics-replacing-propeller-flapping-fin-could-help-team?frsc=dg|d



(3)  Heart repair for stroke patients - Prof Pilar Ruiz-Lozano at Stanford University - soaked a collagen patch in a protein known as Fstl1 and stitched it on to the hearts of animals who had experienced heart attacks.  New muscle cells and blood vessel begins to grow.  (2015-09)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34259213


(4)  Anti quorum sensing molecule
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/44/17981.short



Saturday, May 16, 2015

Sleep

Looking at screens before sleep affect sleep

The Economist | Technology and health: To sleep, perchance http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21651112-screens-bedtime-harm-sleep-effect-biggest-teenagers-sleep?frsc=dg%7Cd via @theeconomist