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Dashboard cams a key safety feature in Russia
Why Dashboard Cams Have Become a Crucial Safety Feature for Russian Motorists core77.com Here’s an interesting example of how cultural influences have led to the ubiquitous uptake of a product design. The country in question is Russia, and the product is the dashboard cam.The Internet is awash in well-captured car crash footage, and i… RT … Continue reading Dashboard cams a key safety feature in Russia
Improving education on environmental risks and fetus
Most Doctors Fail To Warn Pregnant Patients About Environmental Risks That Could Endanger Their Fetuses Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockA new nationwide survey, conducted by University of California, San Francisco researchers, shows that most doctors are not informing their pregnant patients about environmental risks they may encounter while… RT @inhabitat: A troubling survey … Continue reading Improving education on environmental risks and fetus
Countries where climate change kills
The 10 Countries Where Climate Change and Pollution Is Killing the Population Timon Singh, inhabitat.com When you hear about the effects on climate change on global populations, some of the places that might immediately spring to mind might include the low-lying island of Tuvalu or Haiti, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of ever-more powerful… … Continue reading Countries where climate change kills
Sunbed tanning deaths strike teens
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
Epic marketplace analyzes health data
How Online Marketer Peered Into People’s Health Histories bloomberg.com Photograph by Getty Images There are few things as creepy in online marketing as digging into someone’s health history, without their knowledge, to advertise to them. Yet that’s precisely what New York-based Epic Marketplace is… RT @BloombergNews: How an online marketer peered into people’s health histories … Continue reading Epic marketplace analyzes health data
Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon
American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015 By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.com Guns and cars have long been among the leading causes of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatalities will probably exceed traffic fatalities for the first time, based on data compiled by Bloomberg. While motor-vehicle… RT … Continue reading Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon
iPads swarm healthcare
Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health? By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns. Slowly but surely, iPads are changing the fa… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good … Continue reading iPads swarm healthcare
Brooklyn clinic provides direct care for freelancers
A Brooklyn Clinic For Freelancers Looks To Change The Insurance Industry BY KATHARINE GAMMON, fastcoexist.com The health insurance from the Freelancer’s Union has been a godsend to the city’s workers in the gig economy. Now it’s opened a brick and mortar doctor’s office where freelancers can go to get cutting-edge health care. In a brick … Continue reading Brooklyn clinic provides direct care for freelancers
Tim Ferriss and the quest for instant permanence
Raiding the Medicine Cabinet to Become Superhuman Peter Rubin, wired.com If you’ve read Tim Ferriss’ books, you know he’ll do almost anything to himself in the name of self-improvement. And if you thought he took this too far in The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, just wait until The … Raiding the Medicine Cabinet … Continue reading Tim Ferriss and the quest for instant permanence
Personally experiencing the nightmare of health IT
Robots, iPhones, and Windows XP—a personal journey through hospital IT Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I rushed my wife to the emergency room at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital. What she thought was just the stomach bug du jour turned out to be a life-threatening condition that would take her to nearly every corn… … Continue reading Personally experiencing the nightmare of health IT
Visualizing cancer: it’s gone viral
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
The purpose of biotech regulation is to avoid growing bone in your eye
Unproven Stem-Cell Cosmetic Treatments Can Grow Bones In Your Eyes By Paul Adams, popsci.com New cosmetic creams and therapies that make use of stem cells carry bizarre, gruesome risks. A woman in Los Angeles went to her doctor with pain and clicking in her eyelid, following a cosmetic procedure a few months earlier. The… Unproven … Continue reading The purpose of biotech regulation is to avoid growing bone in your eye
iPhones becoming your roaming physician on call
One day smartphones will know your body better than you do By Guest Author, wired.co.uk Technology This is a guest post by Mark Curtis, chief client officer at design consultancy firm Fjord. Smartphones, tablets and the range of apps that run on these devices are transforming the health and lifestyle sector, and a… RT @WiredUK: … Continue reading iPhones becoming your roaming physician on call
DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books
DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture “We are what we eat,” the old saying goes. If so, there’s no better way to digest culture than to comb through painstakingly handwritten cookbooks. Now, the University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easi… RT @WiredUK: DIY History … Continue reading DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books
The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s
Max Little knows how to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s. Just call him By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… RT … Continue reading The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s
Lapka turns your iPhone into a biolab
Lapka for iPhone: five sensors to measure the world, inspired by NASA and Yves Saint Laurent By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com A small Russian hardware startup brings ‘luxury tools’ to your phone Lapka’s tagline may be the “Personal Environment Monitor,” but its name is rooted in the Russian word for paw. “We want to be the … Continue reading Lapka turns your iPhone into a biolab
Diabetes prevention goes digital
NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Last December, Omada Health raised $800K in seed funding from a host of angel and venture investors, including NEA, Aberdare, Kapor Capital, TriplePoint Ventures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A graduate of Rock Health’s first … Continue reading Diabetes prevention goes digital
Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe
What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the personalized genomics company founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of investment cash ($50 million). According to their press release, they are using the money to … Continue reading Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe
Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery
Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The "no compassion" … Continue reading Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery
Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life
philips.com ANDOVER, Mass., U.S.A. - A recent U.S. survey commissioned by Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leading health and well-being company, found that consumers believe web-enabled, mHealth and mobile apps are part of their… http://flip.it/N9jfs Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life Related articles … Continue reading Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life
The Consumerization of Healthcare
by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com The systemic change in US healthcare delivery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of healthcare will be in the hands of the consumers. Today, consumers are better able to make choices about their… http://flip.it/e36yc The Consumerization of Healthcare Related articles Dr. Kizer … Continue reading The Consumerization of Healthcare
Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do
Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do - Fortune Tech cnn.com Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better. By Vinod Khosla FORTUNE — Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the… http://flip.it/t2nZy Related articles Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture … Continue reading Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do
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