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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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Health and the happiness gap
If current happiness trends keep up the "life expectancy gap" between the sexes (currently 5-7 years) may completely disappear. The happiness gap is all about appearances. If you don't mind, it...
September 23, 2009 11:44am |
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Nanny state 1, smokers' rights 0
Those who insist smoking is a personal choice that impacts no one else now see hard evidence that they are just wrong. Their habits are killing other people, probably people close to them, and...
13 | September 22, 2009 10:08am |
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Aspirin research proves all drugs are drugs
We often think that if a drug is available over-the-counter it's candy. It's not. It can still be an important subject of research, and it can still be abused. Take aspirin, for instance.
6 | September 21, 2009 12:48pm |
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Give medicine access to PC standards
You expect perfect security, perfect privacy, and perfect performance from medical solutions. The industry tries to give it to you, but in the process it isolates itself, rendering everything...
27 | September 20, 2009 12:07pm |
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Business gets marching orders on swine flu
Imagine there's no workers, it isn't hard to do. No trains, no subways. And no suppliers, too.
September 18, 2009 7:46am |
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The radical side in the health care debate
A doctor's loyalty is not to the market, and not to himself. It is to the patient. Treat first and ask about money second. It's like the Internet's ethic to move the "precious bodily fluids" of...
7 | September 17, 2009 6:57am |
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When the doctor leaves no order we feel helpless
We assume a boundary exists between our health decisions and those of our doctors, at the doctor's waiting room or the hospital admission table. What insurers, employers and government all want to...
September 16, 2009 7:49am |
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How much like the 1918 flu is H1N1?
Given that most of those who died in 1918 had bacterial infections which struck before we had antibiotics, and that standard vaccines were not in use then, could we be dealing withwhat ended World...
7 | September 15, 2009 12:02pm |
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Flesh-eating bacteria hit the beach
Wash that sand off before you go home, and be especially careful if you have any cut skin. The risk of infection remains low, but it's not non-existent.
September 14, 2009 9:11am |
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Public option argument over and government own
Private health insurance is rapidly pricing itself out of the market. Government is now the largest buyer of health care services by far.
12 | September 11, 2009 11:18am |
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Potato blight and flu have much in common
The influenza germ is constantly changing, and the potato blight is capable of similar changes. Senior author Gene Nusbaum of Harvard described its ability to change as "exquisite."
September 10, 2009 7:15am |
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Now we know why Ritalin works
If you don't have many cells that process dopamine, the best way to get a healthy dose in your brain is to flood it with chemicals that produce dopamine. Stimulants. That's why Ritalin and...
101 | September 9, 2009 5:58am |
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Cancer viruses are a close encounter of the cellular kind
Viruses are trying to teach us something, and where we are when we learn that language may be a different scientific country.
3 | September 8, 2009 7:15am |
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Will vaccines make sex safer?
The antibodies seem effective against three-quarters of the known strains of HIV, and bind to an accessible portion of the virus DNA.
21 | September 4, 2009 11:29am |
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System integration is the biggest health reform challenge
Health IT vendors began construction of an "interoperability roadmap" just last year. Once the map is ready the roads must be built, connected and paid for. Each step is a massive system...
3 | September 3, 2009 9:08am |
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Will even a $2.3 billion fine change drug marketing practices?
Pfizer "managed" this case like the failure of a clinical trial.
2 | September 2, 2009 11:36am |
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Winners and losers from inevitable health reform
A tsunami is coming and only its size is yet to be determined.
4 | September 1, 2009 11:19am |
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Inside the placebo effect are real cures
If talk therapists can harness the placebo effect they may not need to routinely prescribe antidepressants.
3 | August 31, 2009 6:41am |
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Time to put chemical vaccines into the H1N1 game?
If H1N1 turns into a true pandemic and foreign regulators act quickly they could get more protection from an American vaccine maker than Americans do.
August 28, 2009 11:52am |
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The billion-dollar hope of Dr. Soon-Shiong
Patrick Soon-Shiong wants to create the Bell Labs of health care and is putting $1 billion of his fortune into the effort.
August 27, 2009 9:17am |