Tag: Health

  • Diabetes prevention goes digital

    NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Last Decem­ber, Omada Health raised $800K in seed fund­ing from a host of angel and ven­ture investors, includ­ing NEA, Aber­dare, Kapor Cap­i­tal, Triple­Point Ven­tures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A grad­u­ate of Rock Health’s first…

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  • Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

    Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…

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  • The Consumerization of Healthcare

    by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com The sys­temic change in US health­care deliv­ery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of health­care will be in the hands of the con­sumers. Today, con­sumers are bet­ter able to make choic­es about their… http://flip.it/e36yc The Consumerization of Healthcare Related articles Dr. Kizer…

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  • Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

    Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com Decem­ber 12, 2012 Amer­i­can health­care con­sumers are buy­ing into the notion that they must take an active role in their health­care, accord­ing to a recent sur­vey by Wolters Kluw­er Health, part of Wolters Kluw­er, a glob­al infor­ma­tion… http://flip.it/EWQoI Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care Related articles Rate your…

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  • Breast cancer exploitation and the pink nausea

    Possibly the worst example of “pink nausea” and breast cancer exploitation ever Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net As I said to can­cer pals on Twit­ter ear­li­er today, if my loved ones arrange a funer­al for me where every­one is dressed like this, I swear unto you that I will come back from the dead and stab every­one…

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  • The long term side effects of cancer treatment: chemo brain

    New evidence of ‘chemo brain’ proves cognitive damage from cancer treatment isn’t ‘all in your head’ Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Can­cer sur­vivors every­where are nod­ding in agree­ment today: “chemo brain” is real, as those of us who have expe­ri­enced the cog­ni­tive dam­age asso­ci­at­ed with chemother­a­py already know. Mem­o­ry loss, prob­lems with con­cen­tra­tion an… RT @BoingBoing: New…

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  • uBiome: donate some gut flora for a good cause

    scientificamerican.com Help researchers map the human microbiome, the microorganisms that inhabit every inch of our skin as well as our ears, mouth, sinuses, genitals and gut [More] uBiome, Citizen Science | Scientific American http://flip.it/6OVC4 http://flip.it/FKzXC uBiome Related articles The uBiome Citizen Science Project Interview (makezine.com) What Really Happens When You Take Antibiotics? (wakingtimes.com) On Ethics…

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  • What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

    Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer? Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li… RT @BoingBoing: Do…

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  • Creativity and social science critical to reform government gridlock

    Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s glob­al finan­cial and social crises demand inno­va­tion not only in pub­lic ser­vices, but with­in the whole bureau­crat­ic, admin­is­tra­tive sys­tem of pub­lic gov­er­nance. In order to respond effec­tive­ly to a chang­ing con­text of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…

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  • Drug companies return to nutritional supplements for innovation

    (via Consumer, Drug Firms Vie in Vitamins – WSJ.com) Related articles We mistook drugs for food supplements: Ram Singh (thehindu.com) Myths In The Pricing Of New Drugs (forbes.com) Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation (medicalnewstoday.com)

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