Tag: Health

QS Conference 2012 – Ariel Berwaldt – To sleep- perchance to REM

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Network Science

QS Conference 2012 - Ariel Berwaldt - To sleep- perchance to REM (Source: http://player.vimeo.com/) Related articles REM sleep and suicidal ideation (psychologytoday.com) The Dangers of REM Behavior Disorder (everydayhealth.com) Sleep Wellness Centers of New York (liheart.org) Alcohol intake disrupts normal sleep - Times of India (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) 8 Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Your Health (psychcentral.com) … Continue reading QS Conference 2012 – Ariel Berwaldt – To sleep- perchance to REM

The Cynaps Bone

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata

CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want core77.com Hidden hearing by CynapsIf everything at CES actually worked (i.e., no concepts) and you won one of those grab-whatever-you-can-in-fifteen-minutes shopping sprees, what would you snag? We’ve worked out a short list:The Cynaps Bone… RT @core77: CES 2013 Roundup: Stuff We Want: http://flip.it/DAgla http://flip.it/KXPHx

The Science Of Sleep

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

The Science Of Sleep, and How Getting Better Sleep Means You’ll Need Less Every Night Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Many of us struggle to get enough sleep every night, but is the sleep we get any good? While it’s important to get enough sleep, better sleep is a greater ally than more hours of sleep. We … Continue reading The Science Of Sleep

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Network Science

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Epocrates, the start­up whose mobile apps pro­vide drug ref­er­ence advice to more than half of Amer­i­can health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data man­age­ment plat­form for doctors—a mar­riage of two Most Inno­v­a­tive… RT @FastCompany: #FCMostInnovative Health … Continue reading Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Network Science

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doc­tor appoint­ments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doc­tor sees you—speculates a lot—and … Continue reading This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Regenerative Economy

Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anony­mous com­ments online real­ly do stay anony­mous, it’s prob­a­bly wise to start using leet­s­peak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com) … Continue reading Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the Unit­ed States Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion approved a device that treats depres­sion using… mag­nets. About 14.8 mil­lion Amer­i­can adults, or 6.7 per­cent of the U.S. adult pop­u­la­tion, are diag­nosed with major depres­sion in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating … Continue reading FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression

A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Network Science

A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Keep­ing up with the eat­ing habits of our cave-dwelling ances­tors can be tough. Luck­i­ly some­one has slapped togeth­er a handy flow­chart for you to ref­er­ence if you’ve hopped on the lat­est diet-craze… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A … Continue reading A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman

The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, OSINT Intelligence

The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs [Infographic] By Colin Lecher, popsci.com Keeping people locked up ain’t cheap. In 2010, the U.S. spent a whop­ping $500 per sec­ond fight­ing the War on Drugs, and most peo­ple sent to prison for drug-related offens­es are there for pos­ses­sion, not sell­ing. The upshot? More than hal… http://flip.it/mkx9y … Continue reading The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs

Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, Digital Health

New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals, Cockroaches Or Nickelback By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com But Congress narrowly beats ebola, bullies and Lindsay Lohan. Root canals, head lice, cock­roach­es, Don­ald Trump, Ghengis Khan, Nickelback—they’re all ter­ri­ble things, but in the eyes of Amer­i­cans, none of those things is worse than the… http://flip.it/JpCHr Related articles … Continue reading Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals

Hide and Sleep

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

(via Hide and Sleep | Dwell) Related articles The Crazy Things We Do In Our Sleep (and How to Treat Them) (lifehacker.com) Improve Sleep by Exercising More (expsychlab.com) The Battle for Sleepytime (howlifehaschanged.wordpress.com)

The Slow Medicine Movement

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

(via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer) Related articles I Kick. I Stretch and I am 50! 50 Years Old... (kinesisliving.wordpress.com) Slow Travel (edintoedin.wordpress.com) Physicians blend ancient wisdom and complementary practices with conventional medicine (blogs.vancouversun.com) Slow medicine (whyy.org) Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed (kiefair.com) All Medicines are Drugs but not All … Continue reading The Slow Medicine Movement

God’s Hotel Book Review

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Network Science

(via ‘God’s Hotel’ Book Review - An Account of Health Care Past - NYTimes.com) Related articles Watsi, a Crowdfunding Site, Offers Help With Medical Care - NYTimes.com (cannonballcc.org) Stupid Writer Tricks - NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com) Why does almost every site out there make it so hard to leave? @NYTimes reports (alexisohanian.com) Booklist | 'The Dispensable Nation,' … Continue reading God’s Hotel Book Review

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird … Continue reading Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

Teen with cancer creates his own musical goodbye wishes

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Regenerative Economy

(via Zach Sobiech, Teen With Cancer, Records Touching Song To Say Goodbye (VIDEO)) Related articles Dying Teen Sings Farewell Song (foxnews.com) "Clouds," a song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient Zach Sobiech (boingboing.net) Teenager with cancer writes a song to say goodbye (telegraph.co.uk) A song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient (scienceroll.com)

Pesticides in tap water and allergies

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Systems Science

Pesticides In Tap Water Linked To Rise In Food Allergies Morgana Matus, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockWhen planning a meal for a playdate or birthday party, it seems you always have to be aware of a food allergy for at least someone in you child’s friend group. According to the Centers for Disease Control and… … Continue reading Pesticides in tap water and allergies

Top chemicals causing autism

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Systems Science

Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The … Continue reading Top chemicals causing autism

Natural products can replace synthetics with new extraction methods

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Could a Nobel-Winning Technology Spell the End of Synthetic Cosmetic Ingredients? ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Bring­ing nat­ur­al beau­ty prod­ucts to the next level, a team of sci­en­tists are using the process of metathe­sis to trans­form essen­tial oils into ingre­di­ents for sun­screens, lotions and per­fumes. In a study… RT @inhabitat: Could a Nobel-winning technology mark the … Continue reading Natural products can replace synthetics with new extraction methods

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

  businessweek.com Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone RT @BW: Is concierge medicine the future of healthcare? | http://flip.it/0htzp #longreads http://flip.it/fHvQI The Cash-Only Doctors Club Related articles Paul Hsieh on Concierge Medicine (healthcarebs.com) Dear Congress: Listen to … Continue reading The Cash-Only Doctors Club

Recession has slowed birth rate

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health

Recession Left Baby Bust as U.S. Births Lowest Since 1920 By Frank Bass -, bloomberg.com Getty Images The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low last year, dri­ven by a decline in the num­ber of babies born to immi­grant women, who have led the growth in the nation’s pop­u­la­tion for at least two decades. … Continue reading Recession has slowed birth rate

Sunbed tanning deaths strike teens

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Network Science

Teens Dying From Sunbed Tanning Curb $5 Billion Industry By Jason Gale -, bloomberg.com Teenage girls trad­ing the risk of dead­ly melanoma for a year-round tan have helped spur a glob­al back­lash against the sunbed indus­try. Health offi­cials from Brasil­ia to Syd­ney are ban­ning tan­ning salons amid evi­dence that they cause… RT @BloombergNews: Teens dying … Continue reading Sunbed tanning deaths strike teens

NY startups to cut health costs

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

Kravis Backs N.Y. Startups Using Apps to Cut Health Costs By Ryan Faughnder -, bloomberg.com When his uncle was hos­pi­tal­ized with Alzheimer’s dis­ease, Russ Graney strug­gled to find him a home- health aide. The patient stayed in the hos­pi­tal for three extra days while the search dragged on, rais­ing costs for the fam­i­ly. Graney … … Continue reading NY startups to cut health costs

Fjord top picks for tech in 2013

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Ethnographic Methods, Metadata Masterdata

5 Trends That Will Shape Digital Services In 2013 By Olof Schybergson, fastcodesign.com What will the key changes be in business and design during 2013, and what should you do about it? Here are five predictions from the design firm Fjord. At Fjord, we work across domains like media, health care, retail, edu­ca­tion, and bank­ing, … Continue reading Fjord top picks for tech in 2013

Congeners and cheap booze hangovers

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

Why Cheap Booze Makes Your Hangover So Horrible Brent Rose, gizmodo.com You. You’re out drinking with your friends, matching them round for round. They’re sippin’ fancy whiskey, but you’re saving money, sticking with the well specials. So why is it, halfway through the night, you’re suddenly hit with a brutal headache… Why Cheap Booze Makes … Continue reading Congeners and cheap booze hangovers

Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health

  Adam Cole, npr.org What do Jesuit priests, gin and ton­ics, and ancient Chi­nese scrolls have in com­mon? They all show up in our ani­mat­ed his­to­ry of malar­ia. It’s a story of geopo­lit­i­cal strug­gles, tra­di­tion­al med­i­cine, and above all, a war of… ANIMATION: The History Of Malaria Drugs : Shots - Health News : NPR http://flip.it/IQzck http://flip.it/5sxxY … Continue reading Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

Regenerative medicine update: grow back a heart

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI

Researchers get cardiac muscle cells to grow, repair heart attack damage John Timmer, arstechnica.com djneightHeart attacks cause both long- and short-term problems. In the short-term, the death of cardiac muscle cells can cause a critical drop in the heart’s ability to function. Over the long haul, problems arise because the damage is largely… RT @arstechnica: … Continue reading Regenerative medicine update: grow back a heart

Visualizing cancer: it’s gone viral

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Network Science

Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] By Emily Elert, popsci.com Global patterns reveal the myth of a “disease of affluence” Can­cer is often con­sid­ered a “dis­ease of afflu­ence”—a mal­a­dy that most­ly afflicts peo­ple in the world’s wealth­i­est coun­tries, often as a con­se­quence of… Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic] http://flip.it/Pc75S http://flip.it/qUUIU Related articles Light-activated, acid-producing … Continue reading Visualizing cancer: it’s gone viral