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How diet affects brain function revealed in studies

Your brain on food

New studies just released explore the neurological component of dietary disorders, uncovering evidence that the brain’s biological mechanisms may contribute to significant public health challenges — obesity, diabetes, binge eating, and the allure of the high-calorie meal. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Share decision making leads to better health outcomes for patients and lower costs

Shared decision making helps patients be better informed about their treatment choices and make better decisions.

Quality-improving and cost-cutting innovations don’t sit around for years while people keep muddling through with old technology in most industries. When an innovation is ready for widespread use, it disrupts the market, whether the market wants it or not. In the process, some entrepreneur usually makes a killing.

 

 

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Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Inventions, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference

Goose Guardian

Scare unwanted animals away with the Goose Guardian.

Goose Guardian is a wildlife deterrent that utilizes a patent-pending image-based object recognition system to detect the presence of specific species and triggers a hazing device to scare the animals away.  Applications in development for the object recognition system include a deer/elk detector for highway traffic safety and a bed exit detector to reduce the risk of patient falls resulting in injury.

Goose Guardian is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out the Goose Guardian and a wild variety of other amazing innovations!
Recently, inventor Neil McClure took a moment to answer some questions about  wildlife deterrents, device triggers and image analysis algorithms…

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Education, Food, government, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Students and teachers push back on healthier school lunches

New government nutrition standards went into effect this year in a bid to combat childhood obesity.

School lunches for the first time this year are required to be healthier but they are getting some push back from students and teachers across the USA who say they are still hungry after eating the noon meal.

 

 

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Big Problems, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

How do we stop hospitals from killing us?

Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four jumbo jets

If there is even a minor airplane crash in the U.S., it makes the headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and airlines thus learn how to do their jobs more safely.

 

 

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Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

Medical inkjet printer could one day print living tissue on demand

Do you need an artery for bypass surgery or custom cartilage for that worn-out knee?  One day you will be able to print an artery.

Biomedical engineers in about a dozen major university and corporate laboratories are working on ways to print living human tissue. There is the hope of one day producing personalized body parts and implants on demand. Still far from clinical use, these tissue-engineering experiments represent the next step in a process known as computerized adaptive manufacturing, in which industrial designers turn out custom prototypes and finished parts using inexpensive 3-D computer printers.

 

 

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Business, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Growth of urgent care centers worries some doctors

An estimated 3 million patients visit urgent cares each week.

In Annapolis, when Emily Auerswald and her children need care for minor illnesses or injuries, they head to a shopping center that has a Starbucks, a Five Guys hamburger joint and an urgent care center.   Doctors Express, an urgent care center,  is open nights and weekends, and accepts walk-ins without an appointment.

 

 

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Analysis, Big Problems, Education, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend

Vaccination opt-outs on the rise in private schools

The rate of children entering private schools without all of their shots jumped by 10 percent last year.

An Associated Press analysis has found that parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis.  Even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough hasn’t halted the downward trajectory of vaccinations among these students.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Technology will replace 80% of doctors: Vinod Khosla

 Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms was the keynote speaker at the Health Innovation Summit hosted by Rock Health in San Francisco. He said “health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.”

 

 

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