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Rethinking Healthcare
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.
Archive: 06-2012
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Injectable microbubbles help you breathe, keep you alive
These oxygen-filled microparticles deliver 15 minutes worth of oxygen with a single intravenous injection. For patients who aren’t breathing, this could prevent heart attacks and brain damage.
June 29, 2012, 12:20 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Citrus surgery? Doctors refine their craft on clementines
While there are high-tech surgical simulators on the market, perhaps a simple, cheap clementine can teach doctors the skills crucial to laparoscopic surgery.
June 28, 2012, 10:43 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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What the healthcare ruling means for biomedical research
Today, the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold almost all of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A look at how that will impact the science of medicine.
June 28, 2012, 3:53 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Legal battle threatens access to noninvasive fetal DNA test
The market for genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA using mom’s blood could exceed $1 billion a year. But this commercialization brings legal battles affecting corporate profits and patient...
June 27, 2012, 11:20 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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New test may avoid 25,000 unnecessary thyroid surgeries
Oftentimes, biopsies of thyroid growths are inconclusive and an invasive surgery to remove the gland is recommended. Now, Veracyte’s new gene test can confidently determine if the sample is...
June 27, 2012, 8:45 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Bio-Retina: new bionic eye implant is laser-powered
A tiny retinal implant captures images directly in the eye. It’s driven by a rechargeable, battery-powered mini laser and can be implanted in half an hour.
June 26, 2012, 8:23 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Doctors detect autism through a single brain reading
A team of researchers use brain activity traces to identify autism in children as young as two years old.
June 26, 2012, 1:29 PM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Learn x-ray, endoscope, and other physics terms in sign language
A glossary of 119 physics and engineering words have been translated into sign language. This lifts a huge burden on deaf students and interpreters, who used to have to finger-spell esoteric words.
June 25, 2012, 9:02 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Two drugs to treat lethal radiation exposure
Drugs approved to control blood clotting and inflammation in people could be repurposed as protection against radiation damage from cancer treatments and environmental exposure.
June 25, 2012, 8:42 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Swallowable ultrasound device could replace daily injections
No more needles? Now, daily injections of insulin or cancer drugs could be replaced by uPill, which uses ultrasound waves to heat up gut tissue, accelerating the drug’s absorption.
June 25, 2012, 8:28 PM PDT | By Janet Fang