Sunday, June 24, 2018
Life expectancy is continuously growing but how far could it be stretched? How would longevity transform societies and our ways of life? Humanity has been yearning for the secret of immortality since the first temple for the ever-living Gods was built, which might have been 12,000 years ago in Gobekli Tepe, according to the current
[ Read More ]Meet Molly, Eva, Ginger, Replika, Florence, Izzy – your new chatbot friends aiming to make your life better. Check out the most helpful health chatbots! The age of talking algorithms is hereLast week, Google stunned the world with the latest feature of the Google Assistant, Duplex, that was able to make an appointment in a
[ Read More ]Will you smell the robot in the room?Might documentaries explore the situation of bioprinted human organ transplantations on the black market? Will virtual reality cause a worldwide obesity epidemic? The Medical Futurist shares the weirdest ideas about how healthcare might look a hundred years from now. Or even further down the road.
[ Read More ]Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data but will also see emerging tools such as artificial intelligence and 5G connectivity helping to put both structured and unstructured information to work.
[ Read More ]Google kicks off it’s 2018 Google IO developer’s conference in Mountain View, California on Tuesday, with CEO Sundar Pichai delivering the keynote speech.
[ Read More ]For this year’s Healthcare Prognosis, we revisited some topics, like drug pricing and startup health, and added some new questions related to current issues and trends. New entrants are joining the effort to change healthcare for the better, but will they be successful. The majority selected Amazon and Apple as the companies most likely to
[ Read More ]Life as a patient with multiple chronic conditions can be difficult enoughbut even the smallest day-to-day occurrences can cause major fluctuations in a patients health. As problems present themselves daily, more resources are needed to provide assistance and ongoing care outside of the doctors office.
[ Read More ]Crystal meth, or methamphetamine, is a popular street drug among teenagers that can quickly lead to addiction. This central nervous system stimulant with a structure similar to that of amphetamines is very addictive and extremely dangerous. Methamphetamine is known for its ability to produce a relatively rapid and severe form of substance addiction. In fact,
[ Read More ]Memory care is a specialized type of care, tailored for the unique needs of individuals with a medical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or other recognized forms of dementia. The memory care services offered at Villa Healthcare, a leading provider of post-hospital care, include a secure unit with staff trained to understand the needs of people
[ Read More ]The doctor-patient relationship in healthcare is on the verge of a paradigm shift not seen for centuries a paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhns sense in his 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Healthcare and medicine are fundamentally different from physical sciences, but Kuhns point about the sociological transition is universal. He mentioned that perhaps
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