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Rethinking Healthcare
Rethinking Healthcare examines innovation in the health care industry covering topics such as electronic and personal health records, treatment, privacy, regulation and using information technology to manage and monitor chronic conditions.
Janet Fang
Janet Fang
Janet Fang has written for Nature, Discover and the Point Reyes Light. She is currently a lab technician at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She is based in New York.
Janet Fang
Janet does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn is a multimedia science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has corresponded for PRI's The World, Radiolab, Deutsche Welle's Living Planet, and a number of NPR affiliate stations. She also produces and hosts a podcast for the Mind Science Foundation. Previously, she performed neuroscience research at the University of Washington Autism Center and the Seattle VA Hospital.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
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Electronic pacifier helps preemies learn to suck
Called the Pacifier Activated Lullaby, the device plays music to encourage babies to suck correctly, something that's hard for preemies to do. Now available to hospitals.
May 25, 2012 4:07pm |
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Could this painless circumcision device fight HIV?
Circumcision can reduce a man's risk for HIV in Sub Saharan Africa by up to 60%. This adult circumcision device gets the job done without surgery or severe pain.
7 | May 25, 2012 9:52am |
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Artificial immune system tailors vaccines for newborns
A new model of the immature immune system promises to boost the development of vaccines specifically for newborn babies, which are lacking. This'll help test vaccines before trialing them in babies.
4 | May 24, 2012 6:35pm |
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DNA as rewritable, digital data storage
Scientists have engineered a rewritable DNA-based memory module that can reliably and reversibly store data in the chromosome of live cells. The work would help track cells in aging or cancer studies.
2 | May 23, 2012 7:38pm |
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Startup uses neuroscience to pick which ads work
Instantaneous judgements are an intrinsic part of our visual system. Neuroscientists are now taking the science behind those judgements to inform marketing strategies.
May 23, 2012 2:17pm |
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Japan Earthquake: before-and-after brain scans offer PTSD insights
By comparing imaging data, neuroscientists show how traumatic stress affects the brain. The research explains many unknowns and may help develop neuroprotective drugs for specific brain areas.
1 | May 22, 2012 7:03pm |
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An end to your battles with the ketchup bottle
A new glass coating helps ketchup glide out of the bottle, putting the kibosh on waste and frustration.
6 | May 22, 2012 10:02am |
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What rights should you have to your own DNA?
California's proposed Genetic Information Privacy Act would require written consent for scientific use of your DNA. But scientists argue that it would significantly hinder research.
13 | May 21, 2012 3:54pm |
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Over a century later, Phineas Gage's brain connections mapped
Gage's skull was impaled by an iron rod. He survived, but his personality changed. A new virtual recreation shows how neural connections were damaged, in ways similar to modern brain disorders.
1 | May 19, 2012 7:08pm |
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Electroshock therapy secrets unveiled
When all else fails, electroconvulsive therapy can provide unprecedented relief to people with severe depression. British researchers have for the first time uncovered how the treatment may work,...
May 18, 2012 10:38am |
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Surgeons use Kinect to consult images mid-operation
Microsoft Research has teamed up with hospitals in London to develop a 'touchless' way for surgeons to look at scans and other images while still scrubbed in and standing at the operating table.
May 17, 2012 2:50pm |
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Melanoma cocktail slows cancer's growth
In skin cancer patients taking GlaxoSmithKline's combination of 2 experimental drugs, researchers were able to delay drug resistance, slowing down the cancer's spread by nearly a year.
May 17, 2012 1:37pm |
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Junk food tax as a cure for obesity
Researchers say a junk food tax of 20% would affect grocery shopping habits and curb obesity.
28 | May 16, 2012 10:25am |
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Telescope technology to diagnose eye diseases
Adaptive optics, a technique developed by astronomers to produce pictures of stars, can image the minute details of our eye balls. The resulting 3D images can help detect diseases sooner.
1 | May 15, 2012 4:39pm |
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Photovoltaic eye implants restore vision to the blind
These prostheses are self-powered, so they don't require all the wires and coils of an external power supply like current devices. Here, video goggles fire light onto the retinal implants.
May 14, 2012 9:03pm |
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Electronic nose in your shirt sniffs out volatile compounds
Peratech has designed a sensor made of pressure-sensitive materials that can detect potentially harmful gases. These tiny sensors are printable and can be integrated into clothing.
May 11, 2012 3:16pm |
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Why does the diet pill market keep producing lemons?
Two new prescription diet pills are set for approval by the FDA this summer. Anti-obesity drugs have a poor track record with life-threatening side effects, and doctors have similar concerns about...
May 11, 2012 11:36am |
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Wristband sensors to prevent fatal epileptic seizures
A simple wrist sensor can gauge the severity of a seizure as accurately as an EEG, but without the awkward scalp electrodes. What the device measures is related to our fight-or-flight response.
May 10, 2012 1:13pm |
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What's holding us back from having an HIV vaccine?
SmartPlanet takes a look at current roadblocks to an HIV vaccine, and our best hopes for innoculating against the virus in the future.
1 | May 10, 2012 6:30am |
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Kinect cameras spot signs of autism automatically
A system of Microsoft Kinect motion sensors, together with computer programs trained to detect behavioral abnormalities, could help automate and speed up ASD diagnoses in young children.
May 9, 2012 1:29pm |