Category: Health Informatics

  • Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups

    Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups rockhealth.com Accel­er­ate Think you have an idea that can change health­care? Learn more about our pro­gram, meet our men­tors and teams, and see if you have what it takes. Attend If you’re seek­ing ways to con­nect with the dig­i­tal health com­mu­ni­ty… http://flip.it/SmtFv Related articles NYC plays…

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  • The personalized medicine revolution

    The personalized medicine revolution is almost here Narges Bani Asadi, venturebeat.com Narges Bani Asadi is a founder and the CEO of Bina Technologies. Bina is working to commercialize years of multidisciplinary research at the intersection of systems biology, big data, high performance computing, and genomics. Narges holds a… The personalized medicine revolution is almost here…

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  • The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live

    The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com NPR’s Robert Krulwich has a whimsical piece on the one formula that rules it all, from unicellular organisms to whales and sequoias and humans. A math formula that governs our life and tells us when to die.Even more interesting: the same…

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  • An antidote for snoring: exercise

    boston.com Do you know someone with a snoring problem? Buy them a pair of running shoes—and not just so they can lose weight. That’s the argument in an article in the current issue of the always entertaining Medical Hypotheses. The author,… An antidote for snoring: exercise Related articles Do All Dogs Snore? (dogster.com) Snoring Mouthpiece…

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  • 11 Traditional Breakfasts From Around the World

    11 Traditional Breakfasts From Around the World bootsnall.com It could be that a lone bagel and a cup of cof­fee to-go is your idea of break­fast, and the only time you actu­al­ly sit down for this impor­tant meal is on week­ends and hol­i­days, but what about when you trav­el? What hap­pens when you are i……

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  • Can a High-Tech ‘Biological Passport’ End Sports Doping

    Can a High-Tech ‘Biological Passport’ End Sports Doping Forever? Sam Laird, mashable.com Lance Armstrong says it helped scare him off performance-enhancing drugs forever. It’s already been implemented in track and field as well as cycling, and world tennis authorities are now considering adding it to their arsenal as well.It’s called … http://flip.it/ZpQkh Related articles WADA…

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  • Fart-eating underpants

    Fart-eating underpants could do a lot for air pollution By Sarah Miller, grist.org I have been want­i­ng to alter my rather closed-minded opin­ion that Japan­ese cul­ture is real­ly weird, but I guess I’m going to have to say say­onara to that idea, at least for today — because a Japan­ese tex­tile com­pa­ny has invent­ed… RT…

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  • Best bed-bug poison may be Merck meds

    Best bed-bug poison may be Merck meds for humans By Susie Cagle, grist.org From hotel beds to movie the­ater seats, it seems bed bugs are absolute­ly every­where these days (and if they’re not, oh god, they might be, so you’ll drive your­self insane inves­ti­gat­ing every lit­tle speck you spot). Stan­dard meth­ods for… RT @grist: Best…

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  • Buy or die: The survivalist approach

    Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Cli­mate change is com­ing! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Mag­a­zine fea­ture “How to Sur­vive Soci­etal Col­lapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Dou­glas, a… RT @grist: A…

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