Category: Health Informatics

  • Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

    Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…

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  • Obamacare sparks new jobs for tech workers

    Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com John Tri­c­as said he heard oppor­tu­ni­ty knock­ing and learned net­work­ing soft­ware two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he sens­es a sim­i­lar open­ing as the health-care over­haul law takes effect. In Sep­tem­ber, the… http://flpbd.it/1fR6x…

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  • Big data will rewire your brain

    Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most mod­ern humans are now attempt­ing to cram more data into their heads in a sin­gle…

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  • Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody

    By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com Lessons: “Some­times peo­ple are offend­ed by the name, which is obvi­ous­ly never our inten­tion. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please every­one, and I’m ok with that. Not every­body loves what we do—and that’s prob­a­bly for … Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody Related articles…

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  • Scanadu tricorder

    Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health. It was less…

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  • Evolutionary medicine and why parasitic gut worms can keep you well

    The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut Worms Brandon Keim, wired.com A dose of par­a­sitic whip­worms cured mon­keys with chron­ic diar­rhea, fix­ing immune sys­tems gone hay­wire and offer­ing a snap­shot of the unex­pect­ed ben­e­fits worms — which might some­day be used as liv­ing vac­cines — offer to peo­ple. The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut…

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  • Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

    Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hack­tivist and author Fred Trot­ter has hatched a plan to bring hid­den health­care data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence &…

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  • Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

    The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qual­comm Tri­corder X Prize promis­es to turn every­body into a Doc­tor McCoy by 2016. It could change every­thing about the way we prac­tice med­i­cine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a red­shirt think­ing you might…

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  • Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously

    Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com These days, every­one has a smart phone or tablet. In an attempt to keep these gad­gets orga­nized (and work­ing) we’ve adopt­ed an entire indus­try of pro­tec­tive acces­sories that express our unique sense of style and expres­sion. While they ma… http://flpbd.it/ppQjA Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously Related articles MaKey MaKey…

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  • Obama victory and tech industry

    What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…

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  • John McAFee goes native in Belize

    The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin Joel Johnson, gizmodo.com John McAfee, founder of the epony­mous antivirus com­pa­ny, is being sought by police in Belize for ques­tion­ing about the mur­der of Amer­i­can expa­tri­ate Gre­go­ry Faull. (First report­ed by Giz­mo­do yes­ter­day.) In Sep­tem­ber … The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee,…

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