May 2013
4 posts
form to apply for Obamacare coverage →
the bionic body →
Limb Loss →
Snake arms and crystal legs: Artificial limbs push... →
mHealth
mHealth (also written as m-health or mobile health) is a term used for the practice of medicine and public health, supported by mobile devices. The term is most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers and PDAs, for health services and information, but also to affect emotional states.[1] The mHealth field has emerged as a sub-segment...
medicine still lags far behind
As the rest of the world has raced ahead with instant communication, medicine still lags far behind
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324373204578376863506224702.html
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Massachusetts, where many of the more than 260...
Massachusetts, where many of the more than 260victims live, mandates residents have health insurance. But even those with coverage could face major out-of-pocket costs.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/30/pf/boston-victims-medical-bills/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
April 2013
16 posts
Asthmapolis →
Experts recommend that people with asthma track their symptoms, triggers and use of asthma medications. The Asthmapolis sensor and mobile application can help you learn more about and better manage your asthma.
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Big news:
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a technique in mice models to convert skin cells to the types of brain cells that are found damaged in patients with cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis.
The next step, said Dr. Paul Tesar, the lead investigator in the study, is to see if the technique can be applied to human cells.
Since...
Future of organs? Synthetic tissue built with 3-D...
By Amina Khan
April 4, 2013, 1:24 p.m.
Scientists have built a 3-D printer that creates material resembling human tissues. The novel substance, a deceptively simple network of water droplets coated in lipids, could one day be used to deliver drugs to the body — or perhaps even to replace damaged tissue in living organs.
The creation, described in the journal Science, consists of lipid...
Hospital uses iPads to connect mothers and...
Hospital uses iPads to connect mothers and newborns with ‘BabyTime’ initiative
By AppleInsider Staff
Cedars-Sinai hospital announced last week a new program it’s calling “BabyTime,” which uses Apple’s iPad to help mothers stay connected to their newborns, even if they aren’t able to move after giving birth.
BabyTime, a play on Apple’s FaceTime,...
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Low-Cost Drugs in Poor Nations Get a Lift in...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/global/top-court-in-india-rejects-novartis-drug-patent.html?smid=pl-share
Production of the generic drugs in India, the world’s biggest provider of cheap medicines, was ensured on Monday in a ruling by the Indian Supreme Court.
The debate over global drug pricing is one of the most contentious issues between developed countries and the developing world....
Novartis denied cancer drug patent in landmark...
The Indian supreme court has refused to allow one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies to patent a new version of a cancerdrug, a decision campaigners hailed as a major step forward in enabling poor people to access medicines in the developing world.
Novartis lost a six-year legal battle after the court ruled that small changes and improvements to the drug Glivec did not amount...
The Novartis Decision: Is the Big Win for Indian...
In a decisive victory for India’s pharmaceutical industry, India’s Supreme Court rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug Glivec on Monday, ending a seven-year battle by the Swiss drugmaker to get a patent in India on its powerful leukemia drug. The medication, which was approved for use in the U.S. back in 2001, has been produced generically by Indian pharmaceuticals for years at...
Novartis Ruling Reverberates Past India's Borders
India’s Supreme Court says drug maker Novartis can’t hold onto its patent for the pricey cancer drug Gleevec simply by tweaking its chemical formula. That means generic drug makers can keep making a form of the drug at a tenth of Novartis’s price. Consumer advocates call it a major advance for access to generic drugs. The drug industry says it will chill companies’...
Obama unveils $100m plan to help fight disease
Barack Obama has launched an ambitious plan to map the human brain for the first time, in an attempt to seek vital clues for treating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
The Brain Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) will launch with $100m of federal funding, and there are hopes that it could create thousands of jobs in spinoff...
Sanjay Gupta, M.D. discusses pain
S. GUPTA: Former President Bill Clinton’s familiarity with pain killers goes back to when he lived in the White House. Have you ever been prescribed a medication like this? CLINTON: Well, I did take some painkillers when I tore my — 90 percent of my quadriceps, but I tried to be very careful and I was in a lot of pain. S. GUPTA: And years after leaving the Oval Office, he would once...
March 2013
33 posts
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Combat 'Superbugs' Hospitals Boost Disinfection...
With the rise in superbug occurrences at hospitals, Audie Cornish talks
with Tara Palmore, deputy hospital epidemiologist and infectious disease
physician at the National Institutes of Health, about how healthcare
facilities are changing practices to help stem the spread of the
drug-resistant bacteria.
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/05/173559200/to-combat-superbugs-hospitals-boost-d…>
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Top 10 Most Underrated Health Foods
Top 10 Most Underrated Health Foods
Posted By Darya Pino On March 27, 2013 @ 6:00 am In Health | 38
Comments>
http://summertomato.com/top-10-most-underrated-health-foods/
We already know that food manufacturers and the media tend to exaggerate
the benefits of popular health
foods>,
but what about all the wonderfully healthy foods they ignore?
It’s time to shine the spotlight on...
Special Needs and iOS →
Steven Aquino, who works with special needs children and is himself
visually impaired, describes in The Magazine how accessibility technologies…
Relax and you will be more productive →
More and more of us find ourselves unable to juggle overwhelming demands
and maintain a seemingly unsustainable pace. Paradoxically, the best way to
get more done may be to spend more time doing less. A new and growing body
of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including
daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away
from the office and...
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Flu is trending this winter. →
Don't get the flu this season. →
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Healthcare and a Cat Bite
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130115%2C0%2C1491025.column#t…
latimes.com/business/ la-fi-lazarus-20130115,0,149102 5.column
latimes.com
First the cat, now the health system puts the bite on me
A $55,000 hospital bill includes $16 for a generic Tylenol pill. Obamacare
may end the systematic inflation of prices.
David Lazarus
January 15, 2013
Call it the...
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At any given moment, a community can be devastated by a disaster and lives
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must read:
So I have bad news, I have good news, and I have a task. So the bad news is
that we all get sick. I get sick. You get sick. And every one of us gets
sick, and the question really is, how sick do we get? Is it something that
kills us? Is it something that we survive? Is it something that we can
treat?
And we’ve gotten sick as long as we’ve been people. And so we’ve always...
Health Care’s Sticker Shock
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/10/mf-health-care-transparency/ Peeling Away Health Care’s Sticker Shock
- By Andy Grove - 10.16.12 - 6:30 AM
The US spends trillions on medical care—but good luck finding out the price of an appendectomy or an aspirin.
*In the early 1950s,* it was nearly impossible to know the value of an automobile. They had prices, yes, but these would differ...
Ga. Man Shaves Head to Support Wife, Finds His Own...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ga-man-shaves-head-support-wife-finds-o…
When Dolly Stringer was diagnosed with breast
cancer> in
April, she decided to take control and shave her head before she began
chemotherapy.
Now, the Moultrie, Ga., woman believes she got cancer for a reason: to save
her husband’s life.
To show solidarity with Stringer, her husband, Bud,...
Let’s pool our medical data →
When you’re getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing,
privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used
listen to this story: Scientists Create Fertile...
listen to this story: Scientists Create Fertile Eggs From Mouse Stem Cells
(download
)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/10/04/162263750/scientists-create-fertil…»
turn off media well before going to bed →
Recently, I talked about the secret of how to “sleep your way to the top” — the scientifically proven idea that the more you sleep the better you perform. Business can invest all it wants in research, development, skill generation and new products. But if a company has a sleep-deprived workforce, the chances of it winning against its competitors are limited. And employees hoping...
STEM CELL AWARENESS DAY →
Stem cells have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of human
disease. They allow scientists to study human development (and how it could
go wrong), develop better and safer drugs and offer potential treatments
for devastating diseases and injuries. Some of the brightest minds in
medicine and science are working day in and day out to determine the full
potential stem cells bring for...
Stem Cells Photos
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Presidential Debate #1
*(CNN)
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney described differing tax and economic plans at their first presidential debate on Wednesday night, arguing the other’s proposals won’t work in a continuation of major themes from their campaigns.
“America does best when the middle class does best,” Obama said in response to a question on job creation,...
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ASSESSES THE WORLD'S... →
SiCKO: The United States is ranked as a health system by the World
Health Organization.
“The U. S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic
product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according
to its performance, the report finds.” “World Health Organization Assesses
The World’s Health Systems,” Press Release, WHO/44,...
Stem Cell Awareness Day 2012
[image: Scad_2012]
On October 5, we opened our La Jolla campus to the San Diego community in
honor of Stem Cell Awareness Day .
Despite the rain and wind, a number of people from the San Diego Blood
Bank>
,Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation >, the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine >, local
schools, and elsewhere dropped by to learn about stem cell research and the...
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American... →
ROMNEY ON HER BOYS AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
ROMNEY ON HER BOYS AND MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS
http://www.accesshollywood.com/ann-romney-talks-raising-five-boys-romance-wit…
People know I have multiple sclerosis and I’ve also had breast cancer, and
I will make sure that there is more awareness for both of those diseases,
but beyond that, I’ve worked with at-risk youth most of my adult life and I
love kids,” she told Billy and Kit,...
Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients
Medicare fines over hospitals’ readmitted
patients
http://news.yahoo.com/medicare-fines-over-hospitals-readmitted-084833994.html
If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed
extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there’s more to it
than good customer service.
As of Monday, Medicare will start fining hospitals that have too many...
Scientists decode how major cancer protein...
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/scientists-decode-how-cancer-protein-triggers-tumo…
*Washington:* Scientists have discovered that a cancer protein can trigger
variety of tumours since unlike other cell growth regulators it doesn’t
turn genes on or off but instead boosts the expression of genes that are
already turned on.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health in US and...
What are you waiting for
What are you waiting for
The Waiting Room - a must watch film.
http://www.whatruwaitingfor.com/
The Waiting Room Theatrical Trailer from The Waiting Room on Vimeo.
The Waiting Room Theatrical Trailer from The Waiting Room on Vimeo> .»>
Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists?
Why Don’t Americans Elect
Scientists?
By JOHN ALLEN PAULOS>
I’ve visited Singapore a few times in recent years and been impressed with
its wealth and modernity. I was also quite aware of its world-leading
programs in mathematics education and naturally noted that one of the
candidates for president was Tony Tan, who has a Ph.D. in applied
mathematics. Tan won the very close election...
Multiple Sclerosis & Michelle Obama's Father
Multiple Sclerosis & Michelle Obama’s
Father
BY: Stacy Gilliam, a Washington, D.C., freelancer
In her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama
disclosed that her father, Fraser Robinson, was diagnosed with multiple
sclerosis in his early 30s. Learn more about the disease in “The Word on
Multiple Sclerosis” and “MS Study Reveals Differences in...
This was Actually Said..
This was Actually Said..
This was actually said in court and taken from a transcript:
*Lawyer: *”Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?”
*Witness: *”No.”
*Lawyer: *”Did you check for blood pressure?”
*Witness:* “No.”
*Lawyer:* “Did you check for breathing?”
*Witness:* “No.”
*Lawyer:*...
Michelle Obama's Father's fight with Multiple... →
Michelle Obama’s Father’s fight with Multiple Sclerosis
Michelle Obama, 40, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Her working-class parents rented the top floor of a two-flat from her great-aunt, who lived downstairs and taught Michelle to play the piano. Her mother stayed home with her and Craig, two years older, until they reached high school, when she took a job as an administrative assistant....
