Category: Health
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Cambridge covid rules require face masks AND social distancing–even on Fresh Pond
For some unfathomable reason, in the Peoples’ Republic, folks either do not know or do not care that the city’s covid rules now require both face masks AND social distancing, even in parks like Fresh Pond–with a possible $300 fine.
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…
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Convergence Science Transforming Biomedicine, MIT Report says
“Convergence science has advanced across many fronts, from nanotechnology to regenerative tissue,” says Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp of MIT. “But the funding allocated for convergence research in biomedical science is small and needs to be expanded. In fact, there is no federal agency with the responsibility to fund convergence in biomedical research.”
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Bio-IT World Review: BIG Data; BIG Promise; BIG CHALLENGES.
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris on BIO-IT World 2012, describing the promise and problems presented by burgeoning of health care data.
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Broad Institute Launches Collaborative Genomics “Cloud” Tool for Scientists ,
New Cambridge Observer : to harness and allow sharing of exponentially-developing genetic data, the Broad Institute will launch “Genome Space,”–a co-operative Web based tool aimed at “frictionless” data transfer, later this week.