Tag: Health

  • Crowdsourcing cancer survival with new online communities

    Surviving cancer is tough. Not only do you have to get through the many diabolical treatments which destroy health tissues along with disease and leave you crippled and disabled for life, but there are powerful social stigmas that can limit your career and lifestyle after the treatment. Fortunately a number of online communities for cancer…

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  • Brandeis University Health Informatics program integrates computer, social and bio sciences

    Yet another Boston area school has launched a health and medical informatics program, largely online. Know for its bioinformatics degree, Brandeis is now adding courses in these other areas. Health and Medical Informatics | Programs and Courses | Graduate Professional Studies | Brandeis University. Related articles Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics…

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  • When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care

    For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin’s disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy…

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  • TAP® – Thornton Adjustable Positioner: the search for usability in sleep apnea therapies

    TAP® – Thornton Adjustable Positioner :: The TAP® prevents snoring and sleep apnea.. Related articles Snoring ‘may be linked to bad behaviour’ (time4sleep.co.uk) Sleep Apnea FAQ (topdentists.com) What Are Sleep Apnea Causes? (topdentists.com) Is It Snoring or Sleep Apnea? (topdentists.com) Sleep Apnea Tied to More Brain Damage in Women Than Men (nlm.nih.gov) Understanding Sleep Apnea…

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  • SomnoMed: new oral appliances for sleep apnea to increase usability and compliance

    Sleep apnea patients have long suffered from a lack of ethnographic research and usability studies of the conventional therapy, the CPAP. Many find it very uncomfortable to use and thus compliance is low. Fortunately new research is showing that oral appliances have much higher usability. SomnoMed Home. Related articles Available Sleep Apnea Treatments (topdentists.com) Is…

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  • Biological Anthropologists search for Stress Vaccine

    Robert Sapolsky a bio anthropologist is leading the search for a stress vaccine using evolutionary science. Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Researchers create needle-free vaccine out of sugar (itv.com) Vaccine effectiveness tied to sleep habits (time4sleep.com) NaturalNews – FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing Reprogrammed…

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  • The doctor will tweet you now

    via www.computerworld.com Good overview of SAAS, social computing and e-health Related articles easyJet: IT shouldn’t block business users from buying SaaS apps (computerworld.co.nz) Fujitsu Introduces Cloud Service for Senior Care (sys-con.com) Newest release of SaaS Maker™ ‘Cloud Toolkit’ Helps Entrepreneurs Build Big Software Without Venture Capital Dollars (prweb.com) How Doctors Use Social Media (medmeme.com) Online Dos…

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  • Eat Wild: Online community for grass fed products

    Great resource for anyone interested in avoiding factory farmed foods… Eat Wild. Related articles Sustainable Meat: 6 Questions to Ask a Farmer (sierraclub.typepad.com) Wildly delicious > Author Alicia Funk, who lives off the grid in Nevada City, to host Wild Desserts workshop Feb. 9. (newsreview.com) Eating Local Guide (enjoythisorganiclife.com) Upping the steaks: How grass-fed beef…

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  • Health Informatics: New Northeastern University Masters degree

    Health Informatics Degree Online | Master’s Degrees | Northeastern University Online. Related articles Becoming The University Of Everywhere (keptup.typepad.com) GSU to offer health informatics degree (bizjournals.com) Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics expert says (medicalxpress.com) Health Informatics Scotland 2013 – CFP Closes 15 May (imianews.wordpress.com) Saint Louis University is Now Accepting Applications…

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  • Ensuring self destruction of your digital information

    Increasing research shows that for human health, ensuring that one’s digital information is deleted when no longer needed is just as important as retention. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-08/st_thompson Related articles IDC Releases Alarming Trends for the Digital Universe (brandenwilliams.com) Power and dumb machines are the biggest challenges for big data (alexrudloff.com) Librarian entrepreneurs (mbanks.typepad.com) @datamineruk: What is ‘Open…

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  • Neurovigil: Replacing a Sleep Lab with an iPhone?

    This is amazing. Daniel Heimpel: Revolutionizing Sleep Science. Related articles iBrain, a Device That Can Read your thoughts (thehandiestone.typepad.com) Leading Phoenix Sleep Center Now Treating Both Adult and Children’s Sleep Disorders (prweb.com) Why a Sleep Apnea Diagnosis May Save Your Life (health.usnews.com) Make Your Dreams Sweeter With These Wonderful Sleep Apps (appadvice.com) Sleep is not…

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  • Avatar Anthropology

    via news.discovery.com A number of discussions have charted the peculiar syndrome that is accompanying the thousands of people worldwide who have seen the new film Avatar. Apparently the film’s extremely realistic yet idealistic environment and culture painstaking created by digital animators working closely with anthropologists, linguists and biologists hired by Cameron has resulted in a number…

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