Chris Wragge speaks with digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong about healthcare apps and mobile devices to keep your health in check.
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Feed SubscriptionExpert: Pairing some foods packs big benefits
Registered dietician Cynthia Sass shares foods research that shows some foods when eaten together may improve your health
Read More »How to survive at stay at the hospital
A new study from Health Affairs reports that as many as 1 in 3 hospital admissions result in adverse events
Read More »How to survive a stay at the hospital
A new study from Health Affairs reports that as many as 1 in 3 hospital admissions result in adverse events
Read More »Nanoparticle Rubber Stamps Could Help Heal Wounds
You know the UV-ink rubber stamps that night clubs like to stick on your skin? Well, a novel silver nanotech variant of the idea could actually help heal your skin wounds more quickly. Silverware became popular centuries ago partly because it was a precious metal and thus a status symbol, but also because the health qualities of silver have been known since Roman times
Read More »Malaria on the Rise as East African Climate Heats Up
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It (University of California Press, April 4, 2011). Elena Githeko was normally energetic and chatty. But on a Tuesday morning in 2003, Elena's mother, Anne Mwangi, found her daughter quiet and listless, her forehead warm with fever
Read More »The 6 Principles of Success
Predicting the future is a seemingly futile exercise. This doesn't mean we should not try to stay ahead of the game. However, I have found throughout my career at PepsiCo that rapid adaption to changes as they occur is more beneficial in business than clairvoyance.
Read More »7 Tips for Foreign Business Travel
Preparing for international travel is unlike planning a business trip within one's own country.
Read More »The Secrets to Meeting With VCs
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Don’t Even Bother Retweeting This: Elizabeth Taylor Overtakes Crises in Japan, Libya on Twitter
Remember the swine flu?
Read More »Not Just an Illness of the Rich: Tackling Cancer Globally (preview)
By 2020, 15 million people worldwide will have cancer and nine million of them will be living in developing countries, according to World Health Organization estimates. Harvard University physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer is determined to ensure that prediction doesn’t come true
Read More »How Radiation Threatens Health
The developing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has raised concerns over the health effects of radiation exposure: What is a "dangerous" level of radiation?
Read More »Radiation exposure: What’s the danger for Japan and America?
As Japan's nuclear meltdown fears mount, what's the health fallout?
Read More »County-Level "Diabetes Belt" Carves a Swath through U.S. South
More than 18 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with diabetes , which costs an estimated $174 billion annually.
Read More »How Intel and GE Will Monitor Your Grandma–For Her Own Good
In-home monitors detect behavioral patterns and predict medical emergencies. Simple hardware combined with behavioral mathematics is helping seniors live free of nursing homes. Intel and General Electric's joint healthcare product, QuietCare , uses infrared sensors, like those used for motion-sensing light switches, to monitor patients as they move throughout their home and alert medical staff to deviant behavior that suggests a medical threat.
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