Health – Page 2 – Anthrocode

The cancer social network

2013-05-21 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

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 sense when they’re turned into a chart. In fields like…

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New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Computer algorithms help find cancer connections (eurekalert.org)

Effects of posture on social interaction

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

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 find a…

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Claiming Public Space: The Power of Posture (thegreenstudy.com)

Email apnea: how your email is making you sick

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health

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…

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Linda Stone on attention, computers, and education (boingboing.net)
Does Being Present in the Moment Increase Your Luck Factor? (99u.com)

Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health

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 …

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Report: China rounds up GlaxoSmithKline staffers in corruption probe (fiercebiotech.com)
China Probes U.K. Pharmaceutical Firm GlaxoSmithKline After Corruption Claims Aired (forbes.com)
GlaxoSmithKline Probe in China Follows Drug Safety Agency Revamp – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
3 Things You Need to Know About GlaxoSmithKline (fool.com)
Hyderabad-Based Pharma Firm to Supply Pentavalent Vaccines to Egypt (medindia.net)

Spleen on a chip

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

Using 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…

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Building One Function of an Artificial Spleen (fightaging.org)
What is the Function of the Spleen (wanttoknowit.com)
The Future of Medicine: The Spleen-On-A-Chip (storiesbywilliams.com)
Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (technologyreview.com)

Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

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…

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Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus (fastcodesign.com)
Can’t Focus? Melon EEG Headband Gets Inside Your Head to Help You Concentrate (technabob.com)
Gain Focus With The Melon Headband (gadgetreview.com)
Mind-Reading Headbands – The ‘Melon’ Headband Measures Your Focus to Make You More Productive (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Melon focus headband turns to Kickstarter for rollout plans (medicalxpress.com)
The Melon Headband Launches On Kickstarter To Track Your Brain Waves And Mental Focus (techcrunch.com)

Can weed make you healthier and fitter?

2013-05-18 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

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…

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Not Smoking Weed Is Why You’re Fat

Doctors rebel against rip off drug prices

2013-04-30 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

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…

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Nitrous oxide infusers for instant nutraceutical extractions

2013-04-30 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

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…

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SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend

2013-04-30 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search, Network Science

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…

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COACH Report on State of Health Informatics Education in Canada (imianews.wordpress.com)
Will Silicon Valley’s Confident Technologist Investors Save Healthcare? (forbes.com)
Context Sensitive Health Informatics: a pre-Medinfo 2013 conference (imianews.wordpress.com)

BNCT: cancer radiation therapy with no side effects?

2013-04-29 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

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…

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Rural women less likely to get radiation therapy after lumpectomy for breast cancer (eurekalert.org)
Which Country Is the Best for Cancer Treatment? – Vote Please (medicaltreatmentoverseas.wordpress.com)

MDRevolution: custom healthcare for the masses

2013-04-29 by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

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 away on a treadmill. A staff mem…

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La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company Announces Higher Galectin-3 and Lower eGFR Inverse Correlation … (biomedreports.com)
La Jolla Institute discovers new player critical to unleashing T cells against disease (eurekalert.org)

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