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2,300 Deaths Per Day
What cause's diarrhea, a huge killer even in 2015: . . . . . . Contaminated drinking water, . . . . . . Lack of sanitation, and . . . . . . Good hygiene. 07-07-2015 Source: 2,300 deaths per day
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6Th Mass Extinction Has Arrived
Declaring that the 6th mass extinction has arrived, . . . Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich confirms that, . . . species are disappearing off the face of Earth, . . . faster now than at any time since, . . . the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Calling for...
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Clinic In A Can
MOBILIZE MEDICINE . . . Customized containers for global health. 05-17-2015 Source: Clinic in a Can
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Google + Jnj = Minimally-Invasive Robotic
Google, Johnson & Johnson Team Up for Surgical Robots. Robotic technology has been gaining popularity in operating theaters, . . . as more and more patients now choose “minimally-invasive” procedures, . . . which require doctors to make smaller in...
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Follow The Money: Transform Health Care
A $34.- smartphone dongle kit, can replace a, . . . $18,450.- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), and . . . can diagnose HIV and syphilis from a finger prick in just 15 minutes. “Our work shows that a full laboratory-quality immunoass...
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Apple Healthkit
Reuters report's that “Apple’s move into mobile health tech, . . . comes as the Affordable Care Act, and . . . other healthcare reform efforts aim to provide incentives, . . . for doctors to keep patients healthy. The aim is to move away from the ‘...
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Delagua Water Filters And Clean Cookstoves
British company DelAgua, has been bringing: . . . . . . fuel-efficient cookstoves, and . . . . . . water filters, . . . to nearly 500,000 people in the poorest part of Rwanda. 01-01-2015 Source: DelAgua Water Filters And Clean Cookstoves
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Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin before he addressed the World Forum for Democracy
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Rolling Healthy Food
Toronto has its share of food deserts, . . . those areas have the highest levels of poverty and . . . the poorest access to fresh food. That's where this mobile food market comes in; . . . it now brings fresh produce at good prices to the people mo...
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Low-Tech Bicycle-Powered Blood Centrifuge
Jack Trew, a design student at Birmingham City University in the UK's answer, . . . consists of just a handful of parts, that form a single unit, . . . for holding a patient's blood sample, . . . attached to the spokes of a rear bicycle wheel,...
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Saving Lives: With Clean Cookstoves
4.3 million premature deaths each year, . . . are linked to exposure to smoke from open fires, and . . . traditional cookstoves. A range of diseases, including: . . . . . . pneumonia (in children), . . . . . . lung cancer, . . . . . . cardiovascular d...
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Apple Healthkit: Transforming Health Care
A study in the Journal of Health Care Finance from Wolters Kluwer, . . . finds medical errors in the U.S. may cost up to . . . $1 trillion per year. But, when calculations include patients who suffer a medical error but survive, . . . the economic...
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What Is Home Health Care?
Home health care, . . . is a wide range of health care services, . . . that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care, is usually: . . . . . . less expensive, . . . . . . more convenient, and . . . . . . just as effective, as...
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Apple Healthkit: Ochsner Health
Approximately 53% of Americans have their medical records within the Epic EHR, and . . . its MyChart application is the most used patient portal in the United States. Ochsner Health System, based in New Orleans, La., announced, . . . it is the first Ep...
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How To Control Health Care Costs
50% of all health costs, are caused by only 5% of the people. The way to cut costs, is to detect those cases, . . . before they become expensive to treat, . . . but that requires monitoring by health care professionals. But hiring that many profession...
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American Medical Association & Climate Change
Climate change already is affecting global health. . . . The good news is that clear health benefits are immediately available, . . . from low-carbon strategies that today could result in cleaner air, . . . or to more active transport options that can...
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14 Apps For Apple's Healthkit
14 Apps for apple's Healthkit. Experience an entirely new approach to wellness, where . . . your fitness app can talk to your calorie tracker, . . . your doctor can be automatically notified of updates to your health data, . . . and great apps...
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Health: App's For Apple
When Steve Jobs, was in the hospital, he was interested in: . . . what tests were being taken, . . . where they went, and . . . how long they took to get results back. He made notes, saying "Apple could do that better." Now, Digital health comp...
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How Apple Healthkit Will Work
HealthKit, is the center of a new healthcare system by Apple. . . . It's goal, is to improve the accuracy and speed of reporting data to Doctors. Potentially doctors would be able to warn patients of an impending problem. . . . Regulated medical de...
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Kenguru Electric Wheelchair Car
The Kenguru is a low speed vehicle meant to be driven around a neighborhood. . . . 25 mph top speed, . . . 60 miles range per day, . . . 7 feet by 5 feet footprint, . . . 5-15 second load time, . . . any user can enter the Kenguru and secure themselves...
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Apple Hires Health Experts
Apple has hired: . . . Divya Nag, founder of digital health accelerator StartX Med, . . . . . . will be “leading Apple’s health care initiatives and . . . . . . working on special projects at Apple. . . . Nancy Dougherty, from high profile company Prot...
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Can Technology Fix Medicine?
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. . . . Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and . . . advances in analytic software now make it possible, . . . to capture vast amounts of information about, . . ....
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In Healthcare, It’S All About Mobility
IBM, Apple & Epic, partnership has tremendous potential, . . . to make the business of healthcare much more mobile. The goal is to create a true mobile link between providers and patients, . . . by combining the strengths of all 3 companies. . . ....
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Ibm-Apple Deal: Healthcare Ios
Dan Pelino, a IBM general manager said, . . . we will build on work under way already with Apple, . . . with the iPhone and iPad" for healthcare applications, and . . . IBM MobileFirst for iOS platform. The marriage of "Siri" and "Wats...
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Apple Mhealth
Mayo Clinic President and CEO John H. Noseworthy, M.D., said: . . . "We believe Apple's HealthKit will REVOLUTIONIZE, . . . . . . how the health industry interacts with people. . . . We are proud to be at the forefront of this innovative techn...
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