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Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I really enjoyed reading a recent story in The New York Times Magazine about attempts to understand extreme longevity — the weird tendency for certain populations to have larger-than-average numbers of people who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…
$40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 minutes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the duration of the flight, no matter how long it is. I wonder if this neck-propper-upper would help?…
America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of morticians, we certainly don’t imagine a bubbly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……
CellScope Smartphone Device Allows Parents to Diagnose Ear Infections at Home inhabitots.com The U.S. National Library of Medicine says that ear infections are one of the most common illnesses in babies and young children. In fact, more than 3 out of 4 kids have had at least one ear infection by 3 years of age…
Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is growing fast. The overall digital health sector – which includes mHealth, B2B apps and consumer services such as ZocDoc – is also rapidly expanding. That’s if venture capital funding is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to…
TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscatter machine According to reports, the TSA is removing backscatter full-body scanners, which use very small amounts of ionizing radiation, from major airports and replacing them with less-controversial millimeter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…
Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos! Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com I’m at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Conferences of 2006-07. The second coming of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reilly and his company, was entering its peak around 2006. If I……
Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where… http://flpbd.it/hw3nH Related articles Video: My interview…
Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rockwell’s children’s classic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moises… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles ‘Everything hurts’: inside the…
Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Studio d’Xavier) Trying to think of any reason paying more at the pump is a good thing would stump the average consumer (thinner wallets after paying with cash?), but one and possibly the only good side…
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…
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