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HydraCoach: An Intelligent Water Bottle
Drinking enough water is difficult. Exactly how much water people need is debatable (here's a sample calculator), but most people probably aren't drinking enough. Typically, the usual recommendation is 8 ounces of water 8 times a day.And for peopl...
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Gracefully Good Doctor
It's been a week since I've been back, but my return from Singapore is still fresh in mind:I had the severe misfortune of continuing the fevers and chills while en route, here on the ground as well. In fact, after a fitful night, I went to work, ...
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Home Health Technology
This eWeek article by M.L. Baker of Ziff Davis Internet, "Report: Digital Health Coming to Grandma's House," covers a Parks Associate report claiming that Home Health providers will increase their use of monitoring technology to decrease their c...
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FDA fines American Red Cross $4.2M for Donor Violations
The American Red Cross (ARC) is the largest single agency involved with collecting blood for our nation's strapped supply of blood products used in transfusions. Today, the FDA fined the organization $4.2 million, the largest single fine, for vi...
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Immunize School Aged Children for Flu and Protect Us All
What ages to immunize to reduce the spread of infectious disease is an important public health topic of research. Recent evidence from a study published in PLoS and covered by the WSJ, suggests that for influenza the answer changes with the varyi...
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Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
Image from WikipediaWhat's this blog all about?My goal in Tech Medicine will be to explore the intersection of medicine, new technologies, and the Internet. This is a purposefully broad topic. Several times weekly I will post focused reviews of is...
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Thanks to Dr. Anonymous for Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds, this week's best posts of the medical blogosphere, is up at Doctor Anonymous. Thanks for including my post on handwashing.
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Grand Rounds Volume 3 Number 3 is available
Thanks to JonMikel, MD for hosting this week's Grand Rounds, Volume 3 Number 3, and including my post on E Coli contamination of lettuce & ground beef, and Paul Auerbach's post on minor head injury.Go read more on JonMikel over at Medscape whe...
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Grand Rounds is up at Shrink Rap
Grand Rounds, this week's best posts of the medical blogosphere, is up at Shrink Rap. Thanks for including my posts, An Introduction to Medical Podcasts.
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Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
What's this blog all about?My goal in Tech Medicine will be to explore the intersection of medicine, new technologies, and the Internet. This is a purposefully broad topic. Several times weekly I will post focused reviews of issues interesting to ...
