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Scientific American
The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias
Scientific American
2 min read · May 19th · Research shows that anti-fat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient's story.
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Cities Today
The real benefits of smart homes could be in social care
Cities Today
8 min read · Apr 29th · Smart home technology promises a futuristic vision of convenience and comfort, where lights sync with music and the fridge orders our groceries. But the true benefits could address the much more…
MIT Technology Review
Why China is still obsessed with disinfecting everything
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · May 19th · Most public health bodies dealing with covid have long since moved on from the idea of surface transmission. China’s didn’t—and that helps it control the narrative about the disease’s origins and…
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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The Atlantic
So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
The Atlantic
7 min read · May 19th · A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
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Scientific American
The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias
Scientific American
2 min read · May 19th · Research shows that anti-fat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient's story.
Reader View · Shared by 158
The Guardian
AI tool accurately predicts tumour regrowth in cancer patients
The Guardian
3 min read · Apr 23rd · Exclusive: Tool predicts how likely tumours are to grow back in cancer patients after they have undergone treatment
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 81, including Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Phys.org
We've created a device that could allow instant disease diagnosis, while fitting inside your phone lens
Phys.org
4 min read · May 5th · Infectious diseases such as malaria remain a leading cause of death in many regions. This is partly because people there don't have access to medical diagnostic tools that can detect these diseases…
swarajyamag.com
AI, The New ‘ASHA’: How Artificial Intelligence Can Benefit The Rural Healthcare System
swarajyamag.com
5 min read · Apr 28th · India’s healthcare challenges are well known. The issues plaguing the system garnered even more attention when India faced the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic. It revealed gaps in our healthcare…
Reader View · Shared by 70, including Swarajya
ScienceDaily
New study reveals that healthy plant-based diets are associated with a lower risk of developing diabetes
ScienceDaily
4 min read · May 4th · New research finds that the consumption of healthy plant-based foods, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, and legumes, is associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in…
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Knowable Magazine
Does online opioid treatment work?
Knowable Magazine
7 min read · May 4th · The Covid-19 pandemic brought a sudden shift to virtual health care. That has increased access — and possibly outcomes, too — for patients with opioid use disorder.
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MedCity News
How AI is helping to address staffing shortages in healthcare
MedCity News
4 min read · May 2nd · Healthcare, like much of the rest of the economy, is facing a labor shortage. Artificial intelligence can lighten the load for overworked providers through everything from automation to triaging…
Reader View · Shared by 64, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
euronews
How AI may help radiologists detect breast cancer earlier
euronews
2 min read · May 16th · German start-up Vara's tech may help doctors detect breast cancer earlier.
Reader View · Shared by 60
Gates Foundation
Talking about the last pandemic at TED
Gates Foundation
4 min read · Apr 26th · A lot has changed since the last time I spoke on the TED stage.
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The Washington Post
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes
The Washington Post
6 min read · From 2020 · Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by coronavirus.
Reader View · Shared by 623, including Brent Toderian, Dr. Alec Couros, Maia Szalavitz, Prof Michael E. Mann, Eric Topol, Kara Swisher, Virginia Hughes, Katie Benner, Matthew Herper, Max Fisher, Jeffrey Flier, Gregg Caruso, Deborah Blum, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Susan K. Whitbourne, Jeff Jarvis, Amesh Adalja, Rick King, DHH, Rick Klau
nature
What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet
nature
9 min read · 2021-12-02 · What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world.
Reader View · Shared by 394, including Carla Gentry, Gerd Leonhard, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Roger Highfield, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Matthias Lampe
The Atlantic
‘I Think I’m Done’
The Atlantic
~13 min read · 2021-11-16 · About one in five health-care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
Reader View · Shared by 344, including Carlos del Rio, Amesh Adalja, Craig Spencer MD MPH, Tsion Firew, MD, MPH, William Gibson, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Gerd Leonhard, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Martin Fowler, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Daniel Kraft, MD, Timothy Lomauro, Scott Santens, PhilanTopic, Mar Hicks, Bob Wachter, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Virginia Hughes, Ed Yong
The Atlantic
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
The Atlantic
8 min read · 2020-07-27 · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
Reader View · Shared by 340, including Marc Lipsitch, Ed Yong, Nathan Tankus, Rachel Thomas, Matt Brennan, Jane, Maia Szalavitz, Mathew Ingram, Christian Fahrenbach, Stever Robbins, Scott McLeod, Pamela J. Hobart, Jake Wojtowicz, Taylor Lorenz, Mark Hogan, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Timothy Caulfield, Guy Kawasaki, Brian Resnick, Klaus Eck
BBC Future
How AI is helping people with therapy
BBC Future
1 min read · 2021-12-15 · Mental health services around the world are chronically under resourced – but there are hopes that artificial intelligence might offer a solution.
Reader View · Shared by 311, including Xavier Trabado Farré, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Katja Evertz, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, AI, Dr. Sally Eaves #TechForGood #PrivacySummit, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
The Atlantic
We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic
The Atlantic
~18 min read · 2021-09-29 · This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast.
Reader View · Shared by 297, including Anne Helen Petersen, David Wallace-Wells, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Merkstatt, Ed Yong, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Rick Powell, Dr. Tom Frieden, Carly, Mathew Ingram, Abraar Karan, Carrie Brown, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Tom Connor, Ben Fry
europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com
Novel HIV vaccine approach shows promise in “landmark” first-in-human trial
europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com
3 min read · 2021-04-03 · A novel vaccine approach for the prevention of HIV has shown promise in Phase I trials
Reader View · Shared by 273, including Sameer Ajmani, Ser Jeff Garzik, David Boaz, Bruce Lawson, OM, Andrew Sullivan, Ben "TEAM IRL" Popper, William Gibson
digitalhealth.net
Looking into the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
digitalhealth.net
3 min read · Feb 24th · Andrew Davies from the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
Reader View · Shared by 260, including Iain Brown, PhD
Vox
Deaths tell one story of the pandemic. The lives saved tell another.
Vox
6 min read · Jan 27th · Two charts show the extraordinary success of Covid-19 vaccines.
Reader View · Shared by 255, including Dr. Syra Madad, PhilanTopic, Bob Violino, Brian Resnick, Massimiliano Aroffo, Daniel Kraft, MD, Timothy Caulfield
