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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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Pry my Dr Pepper from my cold dead hand
The recommendation is only 100-150 calories of sugar per day. A single soda contains 130.
8 | August 26, 2009 9:05am |
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Harvard study reopens Atkins controversy
A diet similar to the Atkins diet led to heart disease in mice despite cholesterol levels remaining low and stable.
August 25, 2009 7:35am |
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VA scandal gives proprietary software a bad name
Contractors can still be hired under an open source model, but the software that emerges from that contract is owned by the agency, and can be shared through an open source license with state and...
3 | August 24, 2009 7:17am |
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A new kind of catheter
Goldman's invention is called the IsoFlow. It's a completely different kind of chemo catheter.
4 | August 21, 2009 10:13am |
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Discovering pollution that is worse than imagined
Two studies in one day, on items vital to our daily lives, show them to in fact be major pollution sources threatening our health and ecosystem on a daily basis.
11 | August 20, 2009 5:06am |
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The Gates investment everyone can love
PATH acts as a sort of venture capitalist, providing seed money for inventions whose hallmark are simplicity and cost-effectiveness. The group also has a penchant for women's issues and female...
August 19, 2009 9:07am |
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Health tech advocates declare victory and go away
NAHIT may be best known for its work in defining key health IT terms, which includes the difference between an Electronic Medical Record (it can be accessed within a health organization) and an...
2 | August 18, 2009 7:35am |
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You are probably a binge drinker
A martini before dinner, a split bottle for two, and a libation with coffee can easily be defined as a binge. You may not see it as one, but your liver does.
9 | August 17, 2009 9:37am |
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The 10 Biggest Killers of Daily Life
Much of what the Administration calls “health reform� is actually an attempt to get our arms around this. The idea is that if you see someone concerned with your wellness regularly you might...
10 | August 14, 2009 6:05am |
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The $50,000 genetic map
From a diagnostic standpoint, it could soon become standard procedure for a doctor stumped based on symptoms to seek a genetic scan and a cause for what ails you. The answer won't just determine...
2 | August 13, 2009 11:23am |
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Why the FDA device guy needs to be the bad cop
If you use the courts to guarantee that only one cop can be on the beat, and said cop is more Barney Fife than Joe Friday, then people are going to die with no recourse at all.
1 | August 12, 2009 6:43am |
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Inside the wireless pacemaker
The new Accent and Anthem RF pacemakers from St. Jude Medical do have radios and the radios can report your ongoing condition so that doctor visits are easier and more thorough. But this is not...
August 12, 2009 5:19am |
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Are happy people old or are old people just happy?
How much money could we save on our health care bills if we attended to mental as well as physical health?
3 | August 11, 2009 8:42am |
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Was China right about swine flu
China's media is still trumpeting swine flu panic, still playing the quarantine game, but the time has now come to ask a very hard question. Was their attitude toward this and ours wrong? Had the...
3 | August 10, 2009 8:27am |
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Do health records belong in the clouds?
Are PHRs a threat to privacy? Can we put such records into the clouds and maintain control over them?
7 | August 8, 2009 8:57am |
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Sleeping is what I hate about the South
The best temperature for sleeping is between 60-68 degrees Fahrenheit.
1 | August 7, 2009 8:10am |
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Secrets of the HIV genome revealed
It's in knowing the angles at which atoms intersect within a molecule that you can find the key which unlocks and destroys the gene.
1 | August 6, 2009 6:02am |
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Public care recipients oppose public care
If you're getting government care, if you like that care, why are you shouting down anyone who wants to let the rest of us buy into your good deal?
August 5, 2009 7:48am |
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New connections between heart and mind
The same bad habits threatening your heart today may threaten your mind tomorrow. The same moderation we preach in middle age can help you in later life.
1 | August 4, 2009 7:19am |
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Who will care for you in old age?
When you get old, what you'll want more than anything else is a personal relationship, and a connection, with someone who can answer your questions and see you through the health care system,...
August 3, 2009 7:46am |