New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists Chris Lee, arstechnica.com Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more … Continue reading PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication
Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice Ars Staff, arstechnica.com Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri… http://flip.it/Trhjf Related articles … Continue reading Evolutionary medicine: cold temps increases cancer growth in mice
What Health Care Needs Is a Real-Time Snapshot of You Daniela Hernandez, wired.com Healthcare can be a very slow-moving beast. Getting something as seemingly easy as a basic metabolic panel or an HIV test done can take days. That’s a problem because while the lab was working its slow magic, your body was … http://flip.it/iJ4KW … Continue reading What healthcare needs is a real time snapshot of you
Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk | Popular Science popsci.com Lab Rat Janet Stephens via Wikimedia Commons Stimulating a set of neurons deep in the brain has allowed rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk almost normally again, a group of Swiss researchers reports in Science… http://flip.it/MvMj5 Related articles Drug … Continue reading Electrical brain stimulation helps rats with spinal cord injuries walk
Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster by Scott Hensley, npr.org There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring. But there are a few. One is lithium… http://flip.it/q4X0F Related articles [WATCH]: Multiple Sclerosis … Continue reading Finding next MS drug in common industrial chemical, lithium carbonate
Gross alert: This guy has eaten only raw meat for the past five years Holly Richmond, grist.org ViceDerek Nance.If you slide waaaay down from the Paleo diet on the weird scale, you find Derek Nance. Dude’s been solely subsisting on raw meat for almost six years and, according to Vice, has “never been healthier”:Five years … Continue reading Derek Nance eats only raw meat for 5 years
Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San… http://flip.it/Ivquf Related articles Drug … Continue reading Numerate applies big data to drug design
New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects. Related articles US Scientists Find That Chemotherapy Boosts Cancer Growth (realfarmacy.com) Eating Raw Garlic Twice A Week Reduces Cancer By 44 Percent - Better Than Chemotherapy (wakingtimes.com) Garlic Oil May Reduce Adverse Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy (medindia.net) Scientists Make Another Obvious Discovery: Chemo Causes … Continue reading New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects
Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles This app can help you get pregnant (venturebeat.com) 5 Things Startups Should Know Before Starting (business2community.com) Max Levchin's Glow nabs $6M to get women pregnant and rethink health insurance (gigaom.com) The next big mhealth opportunity is … Continue reading Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant
The Future Of Therapy: $5 Million On Breakthrough - Forbes. Related articles Psychotherapy via the Internet as good as if not better than face-to-face consultations (medicalxpress.com) Forbes: 14 Things Successful People Do On The Weekends (bagladyboutiqe.wordpress.com)
Why health care needs Apple Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health. The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and fitness gadgets — including its hotly anticipated “iWatch.” If you were hoping yesterday’… http://flip.it/mxJnO Related articles Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com) Samsung … Continue reading Why healthcare needs Apple
5 Sure-Fire Routes to Freelancing Success Lynn Dixon, mashable.com In today’s shaky economy, freelancing is on the rise. In the U.S. alone, one in three workers are now doing freelance work. That’s 42 million Americans going without employer health insurance, 401(k) plans and flexible spending accounts.But it’s n… http://flip.it/xrdcp Related articles 5 Sure-Fire Routes to … Continue reading Tips for freelance success
New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more … Continue reading The cancer social network
Weak or Powerful: How Does Your Posture Make You Seem? Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP Practicing your posture before a big meeting may sound silly, but scientists have found that how your stand has dramatic effects on your mood and therefore how you are perceived. If you came into the bathroom one day to … Continue reading Effects of posture on social interaction
Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be causing you more stress than you realize. According to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu … Continue reading Email apnea: how your email is making you sick
Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research scientists does it take to make a dent in … … Continue reading Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world
This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.comUsing nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested.Sepsis is a whole-body inflammato…This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your … Continue reading Spleen on a chip
Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental … Continue reading Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Munchies aside, new science indicates that getting high might have shockingly beneficial effects to your health and weight. The stereotype of pot smokers as people who wolf down Cheetos, brownies, and whatever else happens to be in the r… Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat http://flip.it/tWgqn http://flip.it/P9HMl Not Smoking Weed … Continue reading Can weed make you healthier and fitter?
Doctors rebel against rip-off drug costs gingerskinner, consumerreports.org If you’ve ever had trouble affording your medications, and wanted to call your doctor on it, here’s some encouraging news: doctors aren’t pleased about the prices either. Denouncing “profiteering” by pharmaceutical companies, more than 100 cancer… http://flip.it/j3mst
The Chemistry of Nitrous-Powered, Pot-Infused Liquor By Paul Adams, popsci.com How one New York bartender fused alcohol and marijuana forever Behind the bars of some of the nation’s finest cocktail joints, there are secrets: secret recipes, secret bottles for friends only. One of these is the Green Dragon, a liquor… The Chemistry of Nitrous-Powered, Pot-Infused … Continue reading Nitrous oxide infusers for instant nutraceutical extractions
SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com SV Angel, one of the Valley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s starting to look heavily at health startups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biology, medical research and patient care. The firm has always had a l… RT @Techmeme: SV … Continue reading SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend
New cancer radiation therapy treatment with no harmful side effects Darren Quick, gizmag.com Shortly after the discovery of the neutron in 1932, some scientists recognized the potential of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as a cancer treatment. But despite decades of research, the problem of finding a delivery agent that would more… New cancer radiation … Continue reading BNCT: cancer radiation therapy with no side effects?
The Data Doc: Meet the MD who wants to bring custom healthcare to the masses Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard during a doctor’s visit: “We need your data, girl!” I was at MDRevolution’s La Jolla, Calif., office about a month ago, sitting in on a consultation as a patient huffed … Continue reading MDRevolution: custom healthcare for the masses
Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind? Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com The U.S. leads the world in healthcare expenditures – an astounding $2.7 trillion in 2012 and rising every year. Yet in one recent study of medical outcomes in the world’s most highly developed countries we ranked last. … Continue reading IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?
Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps Jordan Novet, gigaom.com Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive applications like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boosting its enterprise customer base and prepping for an IPO, the company said Wednesday it’s now… Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record … Continue reading Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps
The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime. There was a time not too long ago that doctors lived in an analog world. They only answered questions … Continue reading Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online
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