Tag: Infectious disease

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

A 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…

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Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

 

English: Comparison of Plasmodium Lactate Dehy...
English: Comparison of Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase (PLDH) Malaria Antibodies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Adam Cole, npr.org

What do Jesuit priests, gin and ton­ics, and ancient Chi­nese scrolls have in com­mon? They all show up in our ani­mat­ed his­to­ry of malar­ia.

It’s a story of geopo­lit­i­cal strug­gles, tra­di­tion­al med­i­cine, and above all, a war of…

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Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention databases for pharma intelligence

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics

 

English: Logo of the Centers for Disease Contr...
English: Logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. White on blue background with white rays but no white “burst”. No detailed wording. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

By far the best datasets for disease info are the CDC’s…

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

 

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