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Monday, June 20, 2005

The Shield Finger Guard

Filed under: OTC

The Shield Finger GuardThe Shield Finger Guard seems to be an easy and cheap way to prevent door jam accidents. The company is reporting its "must-have newly improved product":

The new model by The Shield Finger Guard offers one-piece construction, which is easy to install with no tools required! The device attaches to the door's angular form with a pre-applied double-sided foam-tape. Doors continue to open and close freely. The Shield Finger Guard is available in two versions: one with excellent adhesion that can be cleanly removed for use in homes; and one with a permanent bond for institutions such as schools, daycare centers, hotels and any public building. The improved model comes folded at the compact size of 10" and unfolds to 39", half the height of an average door. Two Shield Finger Guard's will cover a whole door.

Many parents have heard the terrifying scream of a child whose finger was caught in the hinge side of a door. The Shield Finger Guard offers an easy, inexpensive way to protect tiny fingers and hands from one of the most common accidents that occur at home. The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that there are over 115,000 finger, hand and wrist injuries involving doors treated in emergency rooms per year; nearly 45,000 of those injuries involve children under the age of 14.

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It is supremely irresponsible to portray the U of M announcement regarding their recent foray into vitrification as some kind of breakthrough. They are far from the first group to successfully vitrify unfertilized oocytes, not to mention that they are still only using mice! There are several actual human babies that have been born using the technique of vitrification, by scientists that are several years ahead of the U of M team in terms of success and experience with vitrifying human oocytes. The publishers of this story would be well advised to do their homework next time, instead of taking at face value the words in a self-serving press release.


Posted by: Disturbed
on June 10, 2005 06:12 AM GMT

From the BBC:

"Taiwanese scientists have already reported a successful pregnancy in a woman whose eggs had been fertilised and put into her womb after vitrification.

But despite their success, the technique is still experimental and needs more work, which is why Dr Gary Smith and his colleagues from the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Michigan have been looking at mice. "

The Taiwan group has achieved oocyte survival rates close to that of the Michigan group, though it seems the fertility of their surviving oocytes was significantly lower than in the Michigan mice. We chose to gloss over these details in favor of presenting an interesting technology to our readers in a limited space.

Apologies if our post left you disturbed.


Posted by: Nick
on June 10, 2005 06:46 AM GMT

what ever happened to survival of the fittest? i thought those cracks between the door and the door jam were meant to weed out the stupid


Posted by: angelsneverdie
on June 21, 2005 07:05 AM GMT

Good point there. But sometimes, as in the case of one MedGadget editor shutting the door on another editor's fingers a few years back, the problem is not smarts but communication and circumstance.


Posted by: Bruder
on June 21, 2005 09:01 AM GMT

I had my finger severed off due to an unruly brother when i was young. I think its a great invention. Babies can't be held responsible for their crawling at such a young age. I hope you two have babies and their fingers get chopped off.


Posted by: Megan
on June 21, 2005 01:19 PM GMT

I had my finger severed off due to an unruly older brother when i was young. I think its a great invention. Babies can't be held responsible for their crawling at such a young age. I hope your children don't have the misfortune of experiencing such a traumatic thing.


Posted by: Megan
on June 21, 2005 01:20 PM GMT

Megan smells like cheese


Posted by: merry-beer-pong
on June 21, 2005 01:24 PM GMT

[comment deleted]


Posted by: ArghMatey
on June 21, 2005 01:27 PM GMT