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An electronic sensor may mean the end of finger pricking. UC San Diego A painful prick of the fingertip reveals a mountain of medical information for many diabetes patients. But health professionals have long struggled to find a reliable and painless way to gather blood sugar measurements. Just last year, Google announced that it was developing contact lenses that measure glucose levels in its user’s tears. But now, nanoengineers may have found an even easier way for diabetes patients to monitor their vital levels: temporary tattoos.

12 January 2015 Last updated at 13:11 GMT The January transfer window opened in England, Scotland and Wales on Saturday, 3 January and will close again on Monday, 2 February at 23:00 GMT. Signings confirmed in September, October, November and December can be found on previous transfers pages. Most expensive signing: Manchester City's £28m purchase of Swansea's Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony. Busiest club: Mansfield Town have signed seven players so far. Busiest Premier League club: Sunderland and Swansea City have signed two players each so far. Transfers organised into Premier League, Football League, Scotland and global by the buying club, then listed in alphabetical order by the player's surname.

Supremacy by Stealth by Robert D. Kaplan In the late winter of 2003, as the United States was dispatching tens of thousands of soldiers to the Middle East for an invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was deployed in sixty-five countries. In Nepal the Special Forces were training government troops to hunt down the Maoist rebels who were terrorizing that nation. In the Philippines they were scheduled to increase in number for the fight against the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas. There was also Colombia—the third largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid, after Israel and Egypt, and the third most populous country in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico. Jungly, disease-ridden, and chillingly violent, Colombia is the possessor of untapped oil reserves and is crucially important to American interests.

More than 10,000 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola in West Africa's current outbreak of the disease, according to UNICEF. Almost 8,000 of those children are from Sierra Leone. Many are also Ebola survivors themselves, but because of the stigma and fear around the virus they are often shunned by their communities. Britain has pledged £2.5m to help set up special care centres for Ebola orphans and re-unite children with their extended families.

(Getty Images) Myopia is among our most common complaints – but have we fundamentally misunderstood its origins and its treatment? David Robson squints at an answer. When I was a teenager, my eyesight slowly began to fail and I had to wear spectacles.  What began as tiny slithers of glass soon started to approach double-glazing. “Why is this happening?” I would ask my ophthalmologist as I squinted at the blurry shapes on the eyechart and he upped my prescription. His response was always the same: I could blame my genes and a love of reading.

Jose Mourinho insists Chelsea are treated differently, as he contests a charge for claiming there is a "campaign" to influence referees' decisions against his side. He cited Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger escaping sanction for shoving him during October's league match. "With Chelsea and with me the reactions are different," said Mourinho. "Do you think if I push a manager in the technical area that I don't have a stadium ban? I have a stadium ban." Download Flash Player now You need to install Flash Player to play this content. Mourinho's 'campaign' comments from 28 December.

Satellite images of Nigerian towns attacked by Boko Haram show widespread destruction and suggest a high death toll, Amnesty International says. The images show some 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and Doron Baga this month, Amnesty said. Nigeria's government has disputed reports that as many as 2,000 were killed, putting the toll at just 150. Amnesty cited witnesses saying that militants had killed indiscriminately. It said the damage was "catastrophic". There has been a surge in violence linked to Boko Haram . In the past week there have been several attacks, including by suspected child suicide bombers. Nigeria is to hold elections next month, amid growing doubts whether they can successfully go ahead in all parts of the country. 'Wiped off the map' Amnesty said the attack on Baga and Doron Baga, neighbouring towns in the far north-east of Nigeria, was the largest and deadlies

Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet reprinted four pages of the Charlie Hebdo edition as an act of solidarity Newspapers across the globe respond to the "survivors' edition" of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo - featuring a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad - with a mixture of anger, concern and solidarity. "With new cover of French paper, a new set of fears," says the New York Times on its front page, adding that there is a "dread that Charlie Hebdo may prompt further violence". In an op-ed piece in the paper, Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol calls on the Muslim world to ease its concept of blasphemy. "Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity," he says. "The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers." 'Open crusade'

(CNN) Making New Year's resolutions is easy. Keeping them past January is not. Why? Because simply resolving to do something isn't enough. You need the means to start on the right path and stay the course. Too many of us set large-scale intentions but fall short on a follow-through strategy. That's where yoga comes in: the ancient practice can provide the resources and support for a multitude of modern-day lifestyle changes. If you've set any of the top resolutions -- like being happier, getting healthier or sleeping better -- yoga offers ways to transform your resolutions into lasting reality. And it doesn't matter if you're a seasoned yogi or never stepped onto a mat, you can leverage yoga to realize your most ambitious lifestyle goals. Here are seven popular resolutions and how you can fulfill them with yoga:

And even for people who can afford it, buying a FitBit doesn't lead to better health. Using it does. Geoffrey Etwein/Flickr Last year I bought a Lumo Lift, a device that tracks calories and buzzes whenever its wearer slouches. I wore it for about two weeks, wrote an article about it , and put it in a drawer. There it has sat, forlorn and uncharged, ever since. My experience is apparently not unusual. The authors of a new editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association point out that fitness trackers, like the FitBit and Jawbone, only work if they're worn consistently, in the right way, and by people who actually need to become more healthy. And despite the gadgets' proliferation in recent years, each one of those factors is k

The average human lifespan has nearly doubled over the past two centuries. How does that affect how people feel about death? Charlie Stinchcomb/Flickr If the prevalence and commonality of death has had any positive side effect on Louisiana—which has one of the lowest life expectancies in the U.S.—it’s that residents have attuned themselves to its context. “Early on, I got some sense of history and how ages compare, and how one of the responsibilities we face in this age is to be conscious of what’s unique to it,” says author Anne Rice, one of New Orleans’s most famous daughters. “If you’re aware that in 1850 people starved to death in the middle of New Orleans or New York, that’s a dramatic difference between past and future.”

Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters As many as a million people, joined by 40 world leaders, filled the streets of Paris on Sunday in solidarity after two separate terrorist attacks claimed 17 innocent lives last week. The day before, more than 3,000 miles to the south, a girl believed to be around 10 approached the entrance to a crowded market in Maiduguri, a city of some 1 million in Nigeria's Borno State. As a security guard inspected her, the girl detonated explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and at least 19 others. Dozens more were injured. Saturday's suicide bombing elicited little coverage compared to the events in Paris, which have dominated headlines since last Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo , a satirical newspaper. Why the slaughter of 17 innocents in France receives more attention than the death of roughly th

Late last month, I noticed an odd post in the News Feed of my Facebook mobile app. It was a black-and-white picture of a girl wearing snorkeling goggles and winking at the camera. And it linked back to a page titled, "In Loving Memory of Binland Lee." In the weeks since then, Facebook showed me more of Lee. The original photo, plus other personal shots—Lee smiling with friends, Lee as a toddler with her mother, Lee swimming in Belize—appeared in my feed again and again.

Tools like body cameras for police officers can be only as effective at reducing inequalities in law enforcement as the humans using them. Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to the New York City Police Academy graduating class, December 2014. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) In the aftermath of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the debate about police violence and safety has gained new national attention. Some politicians, including President Obama, have proposed a technological solution: body cameras for police officers . The White House hopes to allocate $75 million to local law enforcement agencies , which would equip about 50,000 more police officers with the cams. Most federal aid programs have distributed heavy weapons, armored cars, and cutting-edge riot gear to small-town sheriff’s departments. This program would provide a tool for transparency.

(Shutterstock*) Nearly twenty years ago, I did a workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., whose first book “Full Catastrophe Living” and overall teachings have had a lasting influence on me. This book is a classic on the topic of mindfulness and it has played a spiritual role in both bringing this practice into the Integrative Medicine World as well as in developing the method we teach our patients on how to deal with stress. I would like to share with you the Seven Essentials of Mindfulness Practice, adapted from this great book

There has been a tragedy in Paris that involved the deaths of journalists. There has been a slew of social media posts about a website that has some unsettling features. The site is www.opcharliehebdo.com and it offers something that leaves many of the people who have visited it very uneasy. The site has a countdown clock and an image of the Islamic flag and it has a countdown timer. The date that the countdown is set to strike zero is January 9 th , 2015. With the creator of the website not found this is still a mystery. The fear is what could happen when the timer on the website strikes zero. Could it be another attack or an indicator for an even larger plot? Pastebin which is a known website where hackers post information have narrowed the owner of the site is actually based in France. Hacktivists have been known to help in many situations and in this case they are on the case trying to find the owner of this site. The owner of the site is Islamic judging from the ho

You may not know it, but your home could be a treasure trove of valuable objects that are easy to appraise and sell. Hunting around the house for sellable items is not only a great way to make some extra cash, it’s also a strong incentive to clear up your clutter. Whether you take your sellable stuff to a formal exchange event, advertise it online or just hold a yard sale, you can profit while you clean.