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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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The contradictions of Michelle Obama
Why is the first lady worth so much more to the Obama campaign as a mother than as a business woman?
45 | September 6, 2012 9:08am |
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The secret to rosacea: mite poop in you pores
Tiny anus-less mites reside in almost everyone's face. Rosacea may be your skin's stress response to an overabundance of their rotting waste.
7 | September 5, 2012 11:30am |
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Can genetically modified corn save the midwest from drought?
As drought ravages much of U.S. farmland, Monsanto sees a 24% rise in stock shares with its drought-tolerant GM corn.
9 | September 5, 2012 6:58am |
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Mutation endows horses with wider gait repertoire
Horses with this genetic mutation can move in more ways. Walk, trot, gallop, and pace! Could this help explain the genetics behind human neuromuscular disorders?
1 | August 29, 2012 10:15pm |
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How one biotech plans to cure blindness using light
Using a technique called optogenetics, Retrosense Therapeutics wants to restore vision in blind patients by giving light sensitivity to neurons that don't normally possess it.
August 28, 2012 3:28pm |
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Two new devices to pluck blood clots out of the brain
Both approved for clinical use, the Solitaire and the Trevo restore blood flow in stroke victims. New studies show that they're safer and more effective than the current standard tool.
August 28, 2012 2:14pm |
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These goats produce human breast milk
Transgenic goats produce milk with the breast milk enzymes and proteins that human babies need most.
5 | August 28, 2012 5:36am |
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What time does your body think it is?
Researchers have developed an easier way to figure out our internal body time. This 'molecular timetable' could help doctors synchronize drug delivery to the internal clock, for better efficacy.
3 | August 27, 2012 10:06pm |
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Smart sutures coated with sensors help wounds heal
Researchers have covered plastic and silk threads with temperature sensors and micro-heaters that monitor the wounds and speed up healing.
August 27, 2012 11:20am |
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New York City gets roadside paternity tests
An RV with the slogan, "Who's your daddy?" collects DNA on the spot and returns answers in a few business days.
August 27, 2012 6:08am |
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Listen as apes on helium sing like humans
Helium-infused calls show that we're not the only primates capable of complicated speech production.
August 27, 2012 3:02am |
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Turning your own blood cells into internal sensors
No more needle pricks? Scientists have devised a way to turn red blood cells into chemical sensors that may, for example, offer diabetics a way of monitoring their glucose levels long-term.
August 24, 2012 10:52am |
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Cellular time travel? Adult cells re-programmed as stem cells
Scientists turn back the clock to restore cells to their embryonic state.
August 24, 2012 8:34am |
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Why this American medical researcher believes he's better off working in Asia
How the U.S. will lose out to Asia in medical research.
7 | August 24, 2012 3:00am |
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HemoSep salvages blood spilled during surgery
And then pumps it right back into the patient lying on the operating table. Reusing your own blood cuts down on the cost of donor blood and the risk of bad transfusion reactions.
August 23, 2012 12:23pm |
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Robotic hand feels for breast cancer lumps
The glove device can also feel for other abnormalities and perform ultrasound.
August 22, 2012 10:07am |
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Treating autism with stem cell therapy
A California clinical trial gives children with autism infusions of their own cord blood stem cells.
August 21, 2012 4:03pm |
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Your skin problems, captured by thermal imaging cameras
Doctors usually diagnose psoriasis by observing how red, thick, and scaly the skin is. But by using a thermal camera, doctors can now quantify skin problems.
August 20, 2012 10:05pm |
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Simple eyedrops can diagnose Alzheimer's, prion diseases
Scientists have devised several fluorescent probes that change color depending on the specific biomarkers associated with different neural diseases.
August 20, 2012 8:46pm |
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How the anti-circumcision trend will add billions to U.S. healthcare costs
Intact foreskins could cost the country $4.4 billion in avoidable health care costs over the next decade if circumcision rates drop to European levels.
13 | August 20, 2012 1:49pm |