Category: Health Informatics

  • Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology

    April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 8, 2013 New apps and devices are bringing diagnosis and treatment straight to the end consumer. fea­tured com­pa­ny Well­frame brings arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to heart care. The Afford­able Care Act put a… Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology http://flip.it/DF2GI http://flip.it/mkzag Thinking of Starting a Business? Check…

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  • Mapping your DNA could save your life

    Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life Lauren Drell, mashable.com You may think you know yourself like the back of your hand, but unless you’ve been DNA tested, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about yourself. Within each of the 50 trillion cells in your body rests the microscopic DNA that programs your…

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  • Chronic pain and happiness

    How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since…

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  • Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear

    How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the excep­tion of Russ­ian nov­el­ists, not many peo­ple can say their big break…

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  • Don’t eat Fukushima fish

    Fish Near Fukushima Reportedly Contains High Cesium Level AP, huffingtonpost.com TOKYO (AP) — The Japan­ese util­i­ty that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant says it has detect­ed a record 740,000 bec­querels per kilo­gram of radioac­tive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7,400 times the gov­ern­me… RT @HuffingtonPost: Record level of radioactive…

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  • Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing

    Can Chemistry Make Healthy Foods More Appealing? Rachel Nuwer, smithsonianmag.com Photo: holtmiGive a baby her first spoonful of mashed spinach or blended brussell sprouts and you can likely watch her face pucker up in shocked torment. Veggies tend to be a dreaded childhood bane for many youngsters, yet there are exceptions to … Can Chemistry…

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  • Night reading on ipad to protect melatonin production

    (via How to Enable Night-Reading Theme in any iPad or iPhone App) Related articles iPhone App Leads Wellesley Police To Suspect In Car Break-Ins (boston.cbslocal.com) His name wasn’t Earl: but he returned my lost iPhone with some iPad Karma (daniweb.com)

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  • Eyewear for computer users

    (via ‘High-Performance Eyewear’? Guess Again. – NYTimes.com) Related articles If Pigs Could Fly (eyewearetcblog.wordpress.com)

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  • End computer induced blue light insomnia

    (via No More Blue Light Induced iPad Insomnia) Related articles Depression Induced Insomnia? (mylifeinbitsandpieces.wordpress.com) Welcome – More posts about insomnia coming soon! (insomniacolorado.com) Do You Dream Of Dreaming…If Only You Could Get To Sleep? (happyholistichealth.wordpress.com) Dozens of Casualties in String of Attacks Across Iraq – New York Times (nytimes.com) Dick Cheney defends NSA surveillance programs…

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  • Visualizing food lifespan

    Put an End to Spoiled, Wasted Food with This Handy Chart Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The costs of wasted food go far beyond the money you may have wasted buying something and letting it spoil. We’ve talked about ways to stop wasting food before, but if all you really need to know is “How long will…

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  • Esophageal bracelet for chronic acid reflux

    Bracelet-Like Device Could Alleviate Chronic Acid Reflux, Says Study Bridgette Meinhold, ecouterre.com Up until last year, treatment for chronic acid reflux involved acid-suppressing drugs, but a new device fitted around a patient’s esophagus is showing promising results to provide relief. A recent study through the Mayo Clinic shows that nearly al… RT @inhabitat: A tiny…

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