The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut Worms Brandon Keim, wired.com A dose of parasitic whipworms cured monkeys with chronic diarrhea, fixing immune systems gone haywire and offering a snapshot of the unexpected benefits worms — which might someday be used as living vaccines — offer to people. The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut … Continue reading Evolutionary medicine and why parasitic gut worms can keep you well
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Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist
Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles 'Hacktivist' group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence & … Continue reading Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist
Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit
Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch Peter Ha, gizmodo.com You might not have ever heard of Misfit Wearables but you’ll want to pay attention starting now that its first gadget has made its debut. Founded by Agamatrix founders Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, the Redwood City-based company … Continue reading Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit
People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones
People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry. BlackBerry has been having a rough go of it lately, slowly sliding into irrelevance as Android and iPhone corner the market. Now add one… http://flpbd.it/OS1sT Related articles … Continue reading People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones
The new green barons
The New Pot Barons: Businessmen Bank on Marijuana By Tony Dokoupil, thedailybeast.com Pot use in the United States is rising sharply, and voters may make it fully legal in two states this fall. Smart businessmen are banking on that happening. Full dark in downtown Denver, and inside one of the twinkling high-rises that make th… … Continue reading The new green barons
Avoiding mega hospital charges with retail clinics
For Simple Care, Retail Clinics Are A Popular Choice Scott Hensley, npr.org If you’ve got the sniffles or need a shot, do you go to the doctor or stop in at a clinic in a nearby drugstore? Lots of people are opting for the clinics, which are springing up inside grocery stores, big-box retailers and … Continue reading Avoiding mega hospital charges with retail clinics
Europe decides to get rid of acrylamide while we argue about soft drinks
Cooking, fast and slow Blogus scientificus by Alex Reshanov, earthsky.org Europeans are so fashion forward. While people in the U.S. are still bickering over soft drink sizes and calorie labeling for Big Macs, the European Union is already tackling a chemical many of us have never heard of: acrylamide. The… http://flpbd.it/k6HkE Related articles The Onion: … Continue reading Europe decides to get rid of acrylamide while we argue about soft drinks
NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT
New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, “an industry segment in their own right.” And while that industry segment has become more … Continue reading NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT
Node is an iPhone scientific sensor
Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle John Biggs http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/hands-on-with-the-node-a-sensor-packed-smartphone-dongle As a scientist practicing actual, bona fide science, I have often found myself in need of immediate g-force readings or barometric pressure analyses for my scientific problems. Whereas before I had to use my sextant and trident… http://flpbd.it/q1NVk Related articles Why NodeJs is … Continue reading Node is an iPhone scientific sensor
Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers
Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems Dave Chase, techcrunch.com Editor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcar… http://flpbd.it/O4Y4E Related articles Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint … Continue reading Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers
Why your body is the next target for social technology
Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, computing has evolved from the mainframe to the desktop to the shoulder bag to the pocket, and now it’s taking over new frontiers: our physical bodies, and the physical environments that we inhabit. … Continue reading Why your body is the next target for social technology
Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need
Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old saying; “if you want something done properly, do it yourself”. My background is as a conference researcher and organiser – for pharma, with pharma. I focused on digital opportunities, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook … Continue reading Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need
The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I really enjoyed reading a recent story in The New York Times Magazine about attempts to understand extreme longevity — the weird tendency for certain populations to have larger-than-average numbers of people who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles … Continue reading The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane
$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 minutes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the duration of the flight, no matter how long it is. I wonder if this neck-propper-upper would help? … Continue reading Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane
Why seeing death helps you to value life
America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of morticians, we certainly don’t imagine a bubbly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But… … Continue reading Why seeing death helps you to value life
Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer
‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to … Continue reading Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer
CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home
CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. National Library of Medicine says that ear infections are one of the most common illnesses in babies and young children. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infection by 3 years of age … Continue reading CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home
ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples
Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is growing fast. The overall digital health sector - which includes mHealth, B2B apps and consumer services such as ZocDoc - is also rapidly expanding. That’s if venture capital funding is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to … Continue reading ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples
TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out
TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscatter machine According to reports, the TSA is removing backscatter full-body scanners, which use very small amounts of ionizing radiation, from major airports and replacing them with less-controversial millimeter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA … Continue reading TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out
Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos
Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com I’m at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco - and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Conferences of 2006-07. The second coming of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reilly and his company, was entering its peak around 2006. If I… … Continue reading Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos
Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax
Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview … Continue reading Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax
An Epidemic of Absence
Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rockwell’s children’s classic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moises… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles 'Everything hurts': inside the … Continue reading An Epidemic of Absence
Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Studio d’Xavier) Trying to think of any reason paying more at the pump is a good thing would stump the average consumer (thinner wallets after paying with cash?), but one and possibly the only good side … Continue reading Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related … Continue reading Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?
How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know
How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share intimate details about our lives within our social networks (and even sometimes with complete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us monitor and share our sleep patterns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity … Continue reading How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know
The Science Of Sleep
‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Maureen Corrigan, npr.org ‘Dreamland’: Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep Fresh Air from WHYY Step, if you will, into my bedroom at night. (Don’t worry, this is a PG-rated invitation.) At first, all is tranquil: My husband and I, exhausted by our day’s labors,… … Continue reading The Science Of Sleep
Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors
Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors in a healthcare future that will be driven by entrepreneurs, not medical professionals, according to Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. Khosla, who wrote an article entit… http://flpbd.it/glxT9 Related articles Top Ten Healthcare Quotes for … Continue reading Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors
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