Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.comA small start-up called Sickweather says public tweets and Facebook messages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu season, six weeks before the CDC.
Baltimore-based Sickweather tweeted about the early flu season on O…
Pesticides In Tap Water Linked To Rise In Food Allergies
Morgana Matus, inhabitots.comImage courtesy of ShutterstockWhen planning a meal for a playdate or birthday party, it seems you always have to be aware of a food allergy for at least someone in you child’s friend group. According to the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders
Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.comThis year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The Mount Sinai Children’s…
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American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015
By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.comGuns and cars have long been among the leading causes of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatalities will probably exceed traffic fatalities for the first time, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.
While motor-vehicle…
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The NewPublicHealth National Prevention Strategy series is underway, including interviews with Cabinet Secretaries and their National Prevention Council designees, exploring the impact of transportation, education and…
Better Transportation Options=Healthier Lives – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
As more web driven mass crowd sourced health data is collected by large search and portals and organized it is being packaged and anonymized to provide services that normally took many months to years and required whole separate agencies and departments to run. So for example Patientslikeme is now making possible users with health conditions to provide reports on conditions in a standardized manner which provides web based “user driven” trials that can quickly provide important feedback on therapies. Similarly Google can now beat CDC in predictive value for flu outbreaks. Read on…
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