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Image via Wikipedia I am a big fan of some vitamin supplements – notably vitamin D – which many people living urban lives tend to get significantly too little of. But there is some recent bad news about vitamin supplements. The first piece is that a large study suggests that there is a […] Can you play your way to better health? What does it take to get people moving? That was the question kicked around (har!) at the gaming-health session at Health 2.0. Chris Hewett’s demo of MindBloom had the room packed. He began by talking about being motivated by fear, or, instead, being motivated by purpose. You’re […] Adverse Events is a heath-tech start-up so new, they barely exist. Despite that, they’re getting some major results. Today they announced that they found from their early analysis – of the FDA’s own data – that two epilepsy drugs may be more dangerous in pregnancy than their FDA labeling might suggest. They used the FDA’s […] I spent the much of the weekend at a special event preceding this year’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco that started last night. This was the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon. I made a short presentation on Saturday and got asked to be a judge on Sunday. The event runs for two days and […] Image by Sanofi Pasteur via Flickr Last time I wrote about Whooping Cough (Pertussis) was in the Summer of 2010, right in the middle of a big outbreak in California. It turns out that a group did a big study using that very outbreak to look at the Whooping Cough vaccine and its […] Image by Gates Foundation via Flickr A report by the RBM (Roll Back Malaria) agency in Geneva, Switzerland says that globally deaths from malaria have fallen by 20% in the past decade, from 984,000 in the year 2000 to 781,000 in 2009. In addition, three countries have been added to the list of […] |
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