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‘I Can Now Climb Trees’: 6yo Kid Gets Prosthetic Arm From 3D Printer
A 6 year-old boy from Florida born with right arm deficiency has received a prosthetic replacement...Students from Florida University made it on a 3D printer for just $350 in just 8 weeks...
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‘Superbugs’ Kill India’s Babies And Pose An Overseas Threat
A deadly epidemic that could have global implications is quietly sweeping India, and among its many victims are tens of thousands of newborns dying because once-miraculous cures no longer work. These infants are born with bacterial infections that are resistant to most known antibiotics, and more than 58,000 died last year as a result, a recent study found...
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‘The Internet’s Own Boy’: Brian Knappenberger Chronicles Tragedy Of Web Activist Aaron Swartz
When Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013, he was facing a possible 35-year prison sentence and a million-dollar fine. Federal prosecutors had targeted him for using an MIT computer network to download 4.7 million documents from the JSTOR database...
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‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’
If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”
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“In Preparedness and Response, Reaching Communities Should Be ‘First Mile’, Not the Last”
IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy has issued an impassioned plea for smarter humanitarian response to climate-related disasters and greater investment ahead of crises. Speaking on a high-level panel at the end of the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment, Mr Sy presented ideas for how communities can be helped to withstand predictable shocks, recover faster, and operate from a “very different baseline”...
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“Shock,” “Dismay,” And Stage 2 Of Meaningful Use
Sentiments of “shock” and “dismay” crowded my inbox at 5:00 pm a few weeks ago as healthcare CIOs reacted to a final rule modifying timelines and certified EHR definitions related to meaningful use in 2014. These sentiments were tied to one, very specific provision that had nothing to do with program year 2014...
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Sixth Hackathon On Rare Diseases - SUNY Albany April 12th
The Sixth Hackathon for Rare Diseases will take place on Saturday April 12th at the State University of New York at Albany. This is a follow up of the Fifth Hackathon for Rare Diseases that took place on February 22nd. The goal of the Hackathon is to continue implementing the prototype of a web-based platform for facilitating the information management of members of the Rare Diseases community. A first pass at the prototype is currently available here in Github, under the Apache 2.0 License.
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tranSMART Foundation To Present Its Open-Source Knowledge Management Platform At Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, will participate at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, Mass. on April 29 – May 1, 2014. The transSMART foundation progrm includes a pre-conference workshop, four presentations during the Conference as well as holding a special Community Meeting on a Wednesday evening during the Conference.
The tranSMART Foundation enables scientists at universities, disease foundations, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies around the world to share pre-competitive data in a way that saves money and time in translating research findings into new therapies and diagnostic tools.
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MALSI Day 2014
The 7th Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a high-energy, hands-on event which brings together scientific leaders and business experts to mingle with scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists.
Can you still be creative? In every lab in every research institution and company, researchers are told that they should be creative. But can researchers still be creative with the organizational and financial demands that are placed on research environments?
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2014 Health Privacy Summit
The 2014 Health Privacy Summit brings together a diverse group of professionals for two days of lively intellectual exchange. Healthcare providers, IT innovators, national and international privacy experts from academia, industry, and government will gather to hear insights, ideas, and analysis from leaders in the health privacy community. The program includes a variety of guest speakers and keynotes to provide expert advice and practical recommendations related to the future of health privacy.
Open Geospatial Consortium Health Domain Working Group Meeting
The next meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium Health Domain Working Group is June 10, 2014, and is open to OGC members and non-members. Anyone interested in interested in advancing open geospatial standards for health, should consider joining the discussion and list-serve. Details are available here.
The OGC Health Domain Working Group (Health DWG) has identified a range of health application areas and interoperability needs, as outlined in it’s Charter: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=56013&version=1. The OGC Health DWG members are now working to advance engineering documents, facilitate interfacing with HL7, and foster interoperability projects and implementations that suit eHealth needs, among others.
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DIA 2014 50th Annual Meeting To Highlight TransCelerate BioPharma Collaboration
Industry leaders in R&D will examine accomplishments, progress and 2014 line extensions. Susan Cantrell, senior vice president and managing director for DIA Americas, will chair the panel discussion “Collaboration in R&D: What’s New for TransCelerate BioPharma?” during DIA’s 2014 50th Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center from June 15 to 19...
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2014 Pistoia Alliance Annual Conference
The Pistoia Alliance invites those with an interest in Life Science R&D to register for its 4th Annual Conference to be held on Tuesday 17th June 2014 at the Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
The objectives of this Pistoia Alliance meeting include:
- Networking with old members, friends and potential new members of the Pistoia Alliance and also with representatives of innovation from the local, NYC biotechnology community,
- Exploring innovation ideas and learning from different innovation initiatives,
- Reviewing and contributing to the Pistoia Alliance "Next Chapter" and its current and emerging portfolio,
- Participating in roundtable discussions to encourage idea sharing and the exploration of emerging "hot topics" in life science R&D.
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Achieve Intenet, Achieve Health & Pillsbury Co-Host Panel Event With Healthcare IT Industry Experts
Achieve Internet & Achieve Health will co-host a free executive breakfast on June 18th at 7:30AM with International Law firm Pillsbury in San Diego CA on How Open Source Software can benefit the Healthcare Technology sector...
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2014 LinuxCon And CloudOpen North America
LinuxCon, CloudOpen and co-located events showcase growth of Linux and open source principles across technology
LinuxCon and Cloud Open are the largest technical conferences focused on Linux and neutral open cloud technologies in North America and provide developers and operations and devops professionals with leading edge technical education and networking opportunities. Keynote and session speakers include leaders from the Linux kernel community and Cisco, Docker, edX, HP, Local Motors, MySQL, OpenStack, Puppet Labs, Spotify and many more.
Featuring more than 140 sessions and keynotes, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are co-located with a Community Development Workshop presented by community expert Jono Bacon, the Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Security Summit, #MesosCon, OpenDaylight Project Mini-Summit, a UEFI Mini-Summit, and Xen Project User Summit. CloudOpen is the only technical conference that focuses on the open cloud and those projects that comprise it all in one place, including CloudStack, Ceph, Gluster, KVM, OpenStack, Puppet, SaltStack, Xen Project and more...
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