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Psychiatric Tsunami: 1 In 5 Children Now Have A Mental Disorder
Last week the CDC released a report titled “Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2005–2011”. For the first time the US government has taken a close look at the incidence and prevalence of common childhood disorders such as ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, serious behavior problems and similar conditions. Read More »
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Public Access 3-D Viewer Puts Supernova Remnant Into The Hands Of The People
NASA and the Smithsonian Institution have teamed up to allow people everywhere to interact with a 3-D version of one of the sky's most famous objects, known as the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. Read More »
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Public Access To Scientific Research Advances
Progress toward making taxpayer-funded scientific research freely accessible in a digital environment was reached today with Congressional passage of the FY 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Read More »
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Public Alerts For Natural Disasters Now Available In Taiwan
As Taiwan heads into another Typhoon season, the need for reliable and easily accessible information about where the next storm will hit and how to stay safe has never been more important. That’s why we’re launching Google Public Alerts and a dedicated Google Crisis Map for Taiwan. Read More »
Public Health Departments Get Nods For Novel Data Use
Three local health departments in Oregon, North Carolina and Colorado have won awards from the National Association of County and City Health Officials for data- and IT-driven projects in sustainable transportation planning, health disparity reductions and mobile immunization collections. Read More »
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Public Health Tech: The Future of Health Tech You Never Heard Of
Digital Health has experienced a glorious boom in the last decade and is expected to reach $379.3 Billion by 2024 with 25% of the growth occurring between 2016 and 2024. Patient management can now be done on user-friendly platforms; physicians can remotely monitor their patients with mobile devices and telemedicine; and personal trackers and genetic testing are allowing patients easier access to their own health data. Clearly, we understand the kind of power technology has on improving the delivery of care and management of disease...
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Public Health Veteran To Head WA State Department Of Health
Washington State Governor Jay Islee has appointed a new Department of Health director, the current Clark County Public Health director, John Wiesman. Read More »
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Public Health's 5 Big Data Hurdles
Public health entities are inevitably sitting on massive data sets. Growing archives of stored patient records, population reports, and lab results are thrusting data volume measures into the petabyte scale.
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Public Medical Labs Could Save Canada $250 Million A Year: Study
The Canadian health care system could save a quarter of its billion-dollar annual spending on lab tests if for-profit labs no longer did them, a new study suggests. Read More »
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Public Research For Private Gain
UC Regents recently approved a new corporate entity that will likely give a group of well-connected businesspeople control over how academic research is used. Read More »
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Public School Children Living In Poverty Across US In Highest Numbers Since 1960s
A new study by the Southern Education Foundation has revealed that the number of low income students enrolled in schools across the United States has surged in recent years to new astronomical numbers. Read More »
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Public Sentiment On HealthCare.gov Takes A Nosedive
The public’s impression of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace, remains deeply negative two weeks after its troubled launch, according to an analysis of Twitter sentiment. Read More »
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Public, private sector innovators convene for FedScoop’s first U.S. Innovation Summit
FedScoop held its first U.S. Innovation Summit Wednesday at the Newseum, drawing more than 500 attendees from government and industry to provide a platform for thought leaders to collaborate on the best ways to encourage public and private sector innovation. Read More »
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Publication Liberation
Making academic publications freely available to researchers and curious students should be standard practice... Read More »
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Publisher Threatens Librarian Jeffery Beall With $1 Billion Dollar Lawsuit
U. of Colorado, Denver librarian Jeffery Beall has been mentioned a couple of time on infoDOCKET lately. We first shared a post about him and his work to shed light on predatory/questionable open access publishers when he was featured in a NY Times article last month. Read More »
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