Category: Health Informatics

  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health

    Where Traffic Noise Takes A Toll On Health David Schultz, npr.org Liv­ing next to a noisy high­way can be annoy­ing. The rack­et can also dis­rupt your sleep. Too many bad nights’ sleep can raise the risk of heart attack, high blood pres­sure and other ail­ments. Curi­ous researchers with the Cen­ters for… http://flpbd.it/tUoKj Related articles Prevent…

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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • Am I a Cyborg Now?

    Am I a Cyborg Now? Achieving a Sixth Sense Through Tech Marek Majkowski, lifehacker.com Fas­ci­nat­ed by a story of how a mag­net­ic implant impart­ed a “sixth sense” in its host, engi­neer and enthu­si­as­tic geek Marek Majkows­ki was eager to test this sup­ple­men­tal sense with­out the inva­sive surgery. With the help of cheap… http://flpbd.it/CiKpC Related articles…

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  • Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                              Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or…

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  • How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

        How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually Brian Fung, theatlantic.com   As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses   Every year, the Unit­ed States spends eight times as much money on unnec­es­sary health-care costs as the Pen­ta­gon spent for each year of its oper­a­tions in Iraq.…

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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  • Personal Genome Project picks up participants

    Personal Genome Project – Homepage. Related articles Personal Genome Project Posts DNA Info Online (npr.org) Years to Regeneration and Antiaging via Stem Cells and Gene therapy per George Church (nextbigfuture.com) George Church, Harvard genetics professor, banters with Stephen Colbert (boston.com) Open-source science helps San Carlos father’s genetic quest (mercurynews.com) Do-it-yourself biotech: Ellen Jorgensen at TEDGlobal…

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