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July 17, 2012
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Curated News - Why health startups should care about ‘alpha geek’ caregivers — Tech News and Analysis
July 17, 2012
“They are very much in need of help and in need of up-to-the-minute, good quality health information. They are using all the tools at their disposal in new ways to gather and share health information on behalf of themselves and on behalf of the people they love and care for,” she said. “[Caregivers] are creating the tools that they need, just as hackers create the tools that they need.”
via Why health startups should care about ‘alpha geek’ caregivers — Tech News and Analysis
Curated News - The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com
July 04, 2012
“My own resolute idleness has mostly been a luxury rather than a virtue, but I did make a conscious decision, a long time ago, to choose time over money, since I’ve always understood that the best investment of my limited time on earth was to spend it with people I love. I suppose it’s possible I’ll lie on my deathbed regretting that I didn’t work harder and say everything I had to say, but I think what I’ll really wish is that I could have one more beer with Chris, another long talk with Megan, one last good hard laugh with Boyd. Life is too short to be busy.”
Curated News - The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com
July 04, 2012
“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”
Curated News - Larry Page, Google Co-Founder
July 02, 2012
“I now have a very simple metric I use: are you working on something that can change the world? Yes or no? The answer for 99.99999 percent of people is ‘no.’ I think we need to be training people on how to change the world. Obviously, technologies are the way to do that. That’s what we’ve seen in the past; that’s what drives all the change.”
Curated News - Make Yourself Healthy: Daughter Knows Best about Kidney Disease and Gluten Intolerance - Boing Boing
June 27, 2012
“You’ve heard knowledge = power countless times. This case is more complicated. Here, self-knowledge + scientific knowledge + trying new things = power.”
via Make Yourself Healthy: Daughter Knows Best about Kidney Disease and Gluten Intolerance - Boing Boing
Curated News - Make Yourself Healthy: Daughter Knows Best about Kidney Disease and Gluten Intolerance - Boing Boing
June 27, 2012
“It had taken ten years for Gail’s GFR score to go from 90 to 31. A few months after she quit gluten she had another kidney test. Your score is slightly better, said her doctor. He implied that such a recovery wasn’t unusual. Six months after that her score was 62 (Ginna made her ask for a number). That was a huge recovery, no longer close to needing dialysis. (The National Kidney Disease Education Program says a score above 60 is “in normal range.”) Gail told her doctor she thought the improvement was because she’d given up gluten. “That’s very trendy right now,” said her doctor. They did not discuss it further.”
via Make Yourself Healthy: Daughter Knows Best about Kidney Disease and Gluten Intolerance - Boing Boing
Curated News - Wearing a Computer Is Good for You - Technology Review
June 27, 2012
“Devices that monitor weight, activity level, heart rate, or other vital signs could, in principle, lower health-care costs by aiding efforts to prevent chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. They could make it possible to provide medical services such as remote monitoring of patients or automatic detection of falls. “Wearable sensor data is going to be the most complete you can get,” Vu says. It could make a yearly blood pressure measurement at the doctor’s office seem archaic.”
Curated News - Wearing a Computer Is Good for You - Technology Review
June 27, 2012
“Mobile health devices and software could change medicine profoundly, allowing people to continuously monitor vital signs and better track and modify behavior. That’s important because chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes are on the rise.”
Curated News - Wearing a Computer Is Good for You - Technology Review
June 27, 2012