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China and other areas of the planet share the unfortunate reality that their rural populations have limited or no access to specialty health care personnel, expertise or facilities. A simple, cost-effective web-based Continuing Medical Education program is presented that allows even some of the most remote areas of China virtual access to medical information, medical specialists and teams of medical consultants, regardless of their location. The proposed project suggests a grassroots approach in improving widespread medical education using the existing telecommunication infrastructure, with minimal equipment requirements that would act as a backup to future systems. For the purposes of this paper, the presented system is termed WebMEd (Web- based Medical Education) and hopefully will be considered for immediate implementation as a feasibility study for future satellite based systems.

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate actual use of Pericardium (P)6 acupressure on prevention of significant motion sickness symptoms. To investigate this hypothesis, surveys of US Coast Guard crewmembers (N=915) on various ocean vessels were conducted, demonstrating potential efficacy of commercially available acupressure wristbands (N=45 with a 76% success rate). These noninvasive wristbands are occasionally recommended by physicians who have successful results with patients experiencing morning sickness from pregnancy, nausea symptoms from anesthesia and motion sickness from cars, boats, trains and planes. Although there is no demonstrated correlation between motion sickness at sea, Space Motion Sickness or parabolic flight maneuvers, it is hoped that positive results from noninvasive devices such as the wristbands presented may have potential use in such missions in the future.