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    Crowdsource Your Health

    Crowdsource Your Health

    You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medical care Medical technology
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    Every City Needs Healthy Honey Bees

    Every City Needs Healthy Honey Bees

    Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments -- and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Honeybees
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    Healthier Men, One Moustache at A Time

    Healthier Men, One Moustache at A Time

    Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every November -- began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it's a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Health promotion Fund raising Prostate -- Cancer
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    How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?

    How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?

    How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer's "strength" -- and also its weakness.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Cancer cells
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    Health Care Should Be A Team Sport

    Health Care Should Be A Team Sport

    When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Medical care Health services administration
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    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

    Subjects:
    Psychology and Philosophy
    Keywords:
    Medical care Choice (Psychology)
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    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Using a mobile app to check glucose levels, sending selfies to receive diagnoses and receiving text reminders to take pills. Is this what the future of healthcare will look like? Karalee Close believes it should, considering that medical mistakes are the fourth leading cause of death in the US. She argues that a closer marriage of technology, big data and healthcare can improve today's system -- especially when it comes to mitigating human error.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medical technology Public health -- Data processing
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    How Do Carbohydrates Impact Your Health?

    How Do Carbohydrates Impact Your Health?

    The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Food Science
    Keywords:
    Carbohydrates Nutrition
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    Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health

    Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health

    Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say."

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental health Mental illness
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    A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think about Public Health

    A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think about Public Health

    Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Medicial informatics Big data Public health
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    Video