Top 5 Christmas Destinations This Year
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For Christians all over the world, Christmas is a festival all we wait for the whole year. Christmas is a very sacred and joyful event for us, with a lot of illuminations, flowers, sweets, smells, etc. Because there are special Christmas holidays all the family waits for, so families plan to spend their Christmas holidays either at home or on the holiday destinations to relax and rejoice their lives with the new spirit ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: sarahmarri7 Tags: happiness Outrageous Christmas holidays Christmas is a festival Morocco tourist attractions wonders of Morocco Source Type: blogs
White Stork, Ciconia ciconia
The White Stork, Ciconia ciconia, is a scientific tautonym, its binomial being duplicated to indicate that ciconia is the “type”, the archetype, of the family Ciconia. This is the bird of birth myth, the one that bears the infant baby to the homes of expectant parents. Perhaps the myth arose because they build great nests of straw on chimneys in the summer.
Anyway, the White Stork is rarely seen in The British Isles. You might see them nesting on rooftops in Germany, Poland, Finland, and beyond. They are relatively common across Europe and not of conservation concern, wintering in southern Africa and breeding ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - September 20, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
WW (aka WeightWatchers) Is Watching Health Tech & Behavior Change Thinking | Zoe Griffiths, WW
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
What’s WeightWatchers, now WW, doing at a health tech conference? Zoe Griffiths, Global Director of Nutrition, talks about what’s next for the company’s 4.5M members worldwide as their “wellness partner” embraces the latest trends and thinking that help make the behavior changes that lead to weight loss easier and more sticky. With the obesity epidemic in full swing, weight management stands on that increasingly blurry line between ‘wellness’ and ‘healthcare.’ How will WW continue to help its members see results?
Filmed at HIMSS/Hea...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology HIMSS Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Helsinki HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe Source Type: blogs
Three Reasons Why 4 of 5 Digital Health Solutions Don ’ t Make It | Bram Van Leeuwen, Sanofi
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
4 of 5 digital health solutions won’t make it to the doctor’s office, and Bram Van Leeuwen, Sanofi’s Lead for Digital Innovation BeNeLux, thinks he knows why. Health tech startups (and their health system advocates) should tune in to find out how they can up their odds of getting their tech integrated into existing points of care. Are there any health systems in the world that have excelled at implementing health tech solutions? Bram’s picked some winners and is sharing best practices.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019. (Source...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health digital health Sanofi Startups Source Type: blogs
Stick-On Wearable Sweat Sensors to Monitor Exercise, Disease
The sweat excreted by our skin contains a number of metabolites and biomarkers that may be useful in managing disease, tracking athletic performance, and helping to identify health problems. Moreover, the amount of sweat that we produce can in itself be an important measure, but current sweat analysis techniques are very limited.
Now, researchers at University of California, Berkeley have developed new sticker-like sweat sensors that can quantify the amount of sweat that is produced by the skin below them. The same sensors can also be used to measure the amount of potassium and sodium electrolytes within sweat, as w...
Source: Medgadget - August 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Military Medicine Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
WeightWatchers Acquired This Health Tech Startup That Helps Kids Lose Weight | Kurbo, Thea Runyan
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Kurbo just became a wholly owned subsidiary of WW (aka WeightWatchers) with its app that helps kids lose weight. Co-founder Thea Runyan explains how the digital health solution is changing unhealthy lifestyles for teens and kids everywhere and talks about her company’s successful exit to the weight loss giant.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Kurbo Thea Runyan WeightWatchers Source Type: blogs
Barcelona Health Hub Launches to Advance Digital Health Solutions from Spain | Josep Carbo, Founder
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Barcelona has emerged a global hot-spot when it comes to healthcare innovation and health tech startups. And now, finally, Spanish startups with digital health apps, digital therapeutics, novel med devices, and other tech-enabled therapies can call the Barcelona Health Hub their home. What’s all the hype about? Barcelona Health Hub co-founder and VP, Josep Carbo, gives us the scoop on who’s there, what they’re doing, and how you can get plugged in.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Start-Ups Barcelona Health Hub health innovation Josep Carbo WTF Health Source Type: blogs
“ Alexa, Open Symptom Checker ” Gets You This Health Startup ’ s App | Piotr Orzechowski Infermedica
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
One of Europe’s top health tech startups, Infermedica out of Poland just closed a $3.65M funding round for its suite of tools that help patients figure out the best place to go to get care. It’s a patient-routing / symptom-checker with “AI under the hood” that is delivered via an app, chatbot, and voice application for Alexa. (In fact, they “own” the symptom checker that opens when you ask Alexa to “open symptom checker.”) Piotr Orzechowski talks about the full range of ways Infermedica is engaging patients and how they are scaling up their ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe Infermedica Piotr Orzechowski Source Type: blogs
The Top Swimming Trackers In 2019
As a team of tech nerds and geeks, we test and review a whole range of health sensors and trackers. As we are already halfway through the summer, we had the chance to try the latest bunch of swimming trackers. We have our favorites, but we dove into the water-resistant wearable market a bit deeper to bring you the widest selection. Now, you can splash into the pool with the best wearables for swimming.
The three challenges of swimming with trackers
Throughout the years, we could distill the characteristics that make fitness trackers, sleep sensors or devices for monitoring vital health parameters great, as we have t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Top Lists digital digital health gc3 Healthcare Personalized medicine swim swim trackers swimming technology vital signs wearable wearables Source Type: blogs
Campylobacteriosis in Scandinavia
For more than twenty years, rates of campylobacteriosis in Scandinavia have been more than 50% above those of Europe as a whole. [1]. During 1995 to 2000, approximately 20-to-60 cases per 100,000 were reported in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden; increasing to 60-to-100 cases per 100,000 during 2010 to 2018. [2] Similar regional trends have been reported for EHEC (enterohemorrhagic E. coli) infection; while rates of yersiniosis have been decreasing.
Sweden = Laboratory reports other countries = Cases
References:
1. Berger S. Campylobacteriosis: Global Status, 2019. 157 pages , 102 graphs , 1,584 references. ...
Source: GIDEON blog - July 29, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs
How Large Is American Government?
America ’s strong economic growth and high living standards were built on our relatively smaller government. U.S. per capita income is higher than nearly all major countries and our government spending is still somewhat less.However, America ’s lower-spending advantage has diminished. TheOECD publishes data on total federal-state-local government spending as a percentage of GDP for its member countries. The chart shows spending for the United States and for the simple average of 30 OECD countries which have data back to 1995. These are high-income countries such as Canada, Germany, and Japan.The chart shows that the Un...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 8th 2019
In this study, we identify a link between members of the genus Veillonella and exercise performance. We observed an increase in Veillonella relative abundance in marathon runners postmarathon and isolated a strain of Veillonella atypica from stool samples. Inoculation of this strain into mice significantly increased exhaustive treadmill run time.
Veillonella utilize lactate as their sole carbon source, which prompted us to perform a shotgun metagenomic analysis in a cohort of elite athletes, finding that every gene in a major pathway metabolizing lactate to propionate is at higher relative abundance postexercise. Us...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 7, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Assessing Variability of Longevity in Stress Response Upregulation Therapies
Most of the interventions demonstrated to slow aging and extend life span to some degree in mice involve upregulation of cellular stress responses. This means increased activity in the repair and maintenance mechanisms, such as autophagy, that keep cells and tissues functional. These approaches are the not the path to radically increased human longevity. As the practice of calorie restriction demonstrates, short-lived mammals have a much greater plasticity of longevity than we long-lived humans when it comes to the effects of stress response mechanisms. Calorie restriction adds 40% to mouse life span, but no more than a fe...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 4, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Five Unusual, Evidence-Based Ways To Get Better At A New Language
By Emma Young
The last time I tried to learn a foreign language, I was living in an Italian suburb of Sydney. My hour a week at a local Italian class was inevitably followed by a bowl of pasta and a few glasses of wine. As an approach to language-learning goes, it was certainly more pleasurable than my German lessons at school. Despite the wine, it was also surprisingly effective. In fact, getting better at a new language doesn’t have to mean hard hours on lists of vocab and the rules of grammar. It turns out that what you don’t focus on matters, too. And a glass of wine may even help …
Listen to the language, eve...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Feature Language Memory Source Type: blogs
How To Teach Kids (Digital) Health Literacy?
In a world of social companion robots, chatbots, or artificial
intelligence buddies, adults have the responsibility to teach kids well how to
live a healthy life with the available technologies, how to balance between the
online and the offline world, how to keep their mental stability in the face of
innovations. As it’s an awfully difficult job, we collected examples where
digital health technology could help and in which areas should analog methods
prevail.
The land where kindergarteners play with the texture
of raspberry
When was the last time you paid attention to the
crunching sounds while eating a raw carrot...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers apps children cognitive health digital health digital literacy eating fitness health apps health literacy healthy eating healthy lifestyle Innovation kids mental health physical Source Type: blogs
