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Health Care Is the Next Battleground for Big Tech
Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon are all getting involved in your health care. Here’s why.
John Wilbanks
The estimable @emilylmullin with a summary piece on health care, big tech. She quotes my one big fear in the space.
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Tinder's New Panic Button Is Sharing your Data With Ad-Tech Companies
Tinder has a proven track record of providing a dating platform to some less-than-stellar men who have been accused of raping—and in one grisly case, dismembering—women they’ve met through the platform. But even when the company does something...
Mothers as Makers of Death
John Wilbanks
LRT includes a link to this Paris Review piece on Mothers as Makers of Death by @claudiadey and I'm just over here in the corner weeping quietly watching my son, home from school today
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Epic's call to block a proposed data rule is wrong for many reasons
Epic, the large electronic health record company, wants to scuttle a rule that requires information to flow freely between EHRs. It should embrace it.
Return journey from Auschwitz: the diary of my grandfather
German Passport to travel to France before the start of the war. Foreword This testimony written by my grandfather Gustav Karl whic...
Pandemic
In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of...
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John Wilbanks
Is this a good time promote an awesome board game? Pandemic. It’s morbidly awesome.
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Panic, Paranoia, and Public Health — The AIDS Epidemic's Lessons for Ebola | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Panic, Paranoia, and Public Health — The AIDS Epidemic's Lessons for Ebola
Celebrity Miscarriage Disclosures Increase Discussion on Twitter | SPH | Boston University
Tweets show widespread misunderstanding of the potential physical, emotional, and psychological impacts on individuals who lose a pregnancy due to a miscarriage, and outrage around reproductive health in the United States.
Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain
Whether it is local ‘cat-seducers’, out-and-out thievery or marauding toms, our feline friends are prompting furious rows and rivalries between neighbours
Pistachio Buns Recipe
This recipe works particularly well as a two-for-one follow-up to pistachio ice cream, a recipe that generates exactly enough milk-soaked pistachios for a batch of homemade pistachio paste. With that laced into the dough, filling, and frosting,...
An ethical framework for genetic counseling in the genomic era. - PubMed - NCBI
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To APS Members From the Board of Directors
Today, the APS Board sent a letter to the Trump Administration, expressing regret for having signed a letter in protest of an impending executive order from the Trump Administration to mandate immediate open access for all publications reporting on...
News / Wuhan Coronavirus
17 January 2020 - Imperial College London
Licence Friction: A Tale of Two Datasets
For years now at the Open Data Institute we’ve been working to increase access to data, to create a range of social and economic benefits across a range of sectors. While the details change across …
Wuhan, China, is scrambling to build a hospital in just 6 days to treat coronavirus patients its health system gets overwhelmed
Wuhan is in lockdown over the deadly virus, and doctors say existing hospitals are severely overwhelmed.
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Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is thought to have emerged into the human population in Wuhan, China. The number of identified cases in Wuhan has increased rapidly since, and cases have been identified in other Chinese cities and...