This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Diane Curly is treating obesity like any other disease or addiction and trains nurses to talk to patients about treatment.READ MORE›
Antibiotics might be one of the miracles of modern medicine, but they’re not actually so great. Now, instead of damaging cells, we’re just going to blow them up.READ MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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 MORE›
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