Using little more than gelatin, aluminum foil, milk protein, and a 12-cent LED, University of Texas scientists have hacked together a super-cheap, fast-acting detector for pancreatitis. READ»
Slate has produced a sobering time lapse animation showing the inexorable spread of diabetes across America.
The rise in diabetes is, of course, linked to the rising rates of obesity across America. But what's truly stunning is ...READ»
By tricking out tiny portable Wi-Fi devices and giving them to everyone in a school, Stanford researchers have gathered hard data on how quickly a flu pandemic could spread. READ»
What will the new healthcare reform mean to your company? It means that you have to provide health insurance for all your employees, and that you have to pay a substantial portion of the premium; it means you are going to be ...READ»
You may ask yourself what makes WhiteGlove House Call Health different from other routine healthcare services and providers. The short answer is - “EVERYTHING!” WhiteGlove comes to you – WhiteGlove ...READ»
Keeping employees healthy results in boosting productivity and reducing the rate of missed work for any company. As a result, worker health is a rising priority in the business world. The majority of adults spend more waking ...READ»
We live in terrifying times: Pandemics ranging from bird flu to swine flu regularly threatening to kill millions. Can architecture deal with those problems?READ»
I visited IBM's Almaden Research Center (where the hard drive was invented) to see what the researchers there were working on. I met James Kaufman, who is a physicist who is creating an interoperable healthcare information system. ...READ»
Swine flu still rumbles on in the background, and it is still dangerous--but could two new inventions revealed this week give us Star Trek-like medical technology to help us combat future pandemics?
Claims that scientists have ...READ»
As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»
October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action
Day. An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.
The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and
videocasters, by posting ...READ»
Our omniscient government has a list of the most popular New Year's resolutions. Ironically, each one inidividually leads to a healthier happier life. A wish list? Perhaps, but if we the people fulfilled these important ...READ»
Many people carry around loads of baggage from their pasts, full of anger, resentment, and frustration, never affecting the person(s) who are the receivers of this indignation. The victim is the individual who cannot get beyond ...READ»