UCLA study examines health of California seniors
“Most older persons are working to maintain their health by following recommended schedules for cancer screenings, obtaining flu shots, not smoking and taking medicines for chronic conditions. Yet some groups, such as Latinos, have more health problems than average and obtain fewer preventive services,” said lead author Steven P. [...]
Income important in tracking health status
“This is an ideal time to address the long-neglected need to assess and report on the quality of care of women with cancer – especially those with financial hardship and those who are underserved minorities,” says Anderson. “Currently, the health care of the uninsured is virtually invisible.”
Yahoo! News – 5 ‘exabytes’ of information created in ‘02, report says
If you feel like you’re drowning in stuff coming through your computer, it’s official: you are.
Thanks to the FI Center I was able to attend a conference at Stanford a little while ago called BIOSILICO 2003 organized by Scientific American.
It’s taken me a while to let the deluge of technical information and bioinformatics industry insider-jargon settle into a few themes that I can pull together. Over the next few days [...]
If you’re looking for FI Space, this is it!
Look around. Make yourself at home.
Things are posted from the most recent at the top of this main column to earlier posts as you scroll down.
Over in the right column (note the ACS brand-compliant red!) you’ll find some links about FI Space and who posts directly to [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Ortiz de Solorzano, PhD, staff scientist in the Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His research involves doing three-dimensional quantitative analysis of cellular and structural changes in breast tissue, as it progresses from normal to malignant conditions. His lab [...]
InfoWorld: Tech CEOs defend offshore outsourcing: October 22, 2003: By Tom Sullivan: Platforms
“U.S. domination of the IT era has ended … and the prosperity enjoyed by developed nations is cascading down to developing nations, at least those that embrace the information age.”
Experts say new biotech age looms
Biotech a tsunami?
Interesting comment:
Juan Enriquez, director of Harvard University Business School’s Life Science Project, promised a tsunami wave. Enriquez proclaimed the 21st century as Biological Century. Indeed, biotechnology has surpassed IT as the leading source of U.S. patents. “You can get off the boat [ignore progress] or you can accept [...]
Taipei Times – archives
Mega cities–more that 10 million residents–are rapidly appearing in many parts of the world, and the population of citizens in cities is expected to pass populations is rural areas for the first time in 2007.
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