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Apple Announces Advancements to ResearchKit
Apple today announced advancements to the open source ResearchKit framework that bring genetic data and a series of medical tests typically conducted in an exam room to iPhone apps. Medical researchers are adopting these new features to design targeted studies for diseases and conditions that affect billions of people around the world and to gather more specific types of data from participants. “The response to ResearchKit has been fantastic. Virtually overnight, many ResearchKit studies became the largest in history and researchers are gaining insights and making discoveries that weren’t possible before,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer...
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Document Search Tool May Boost Treatment of Vets with Congestive Heart Failure
A specialist in biomedical informatics, Dr. Jennifer Garvin has long been interested in improving the care of heart failure patients through evidence-based medical therapy. Cardiovascular disease, the number-one killer of Americans, is the leading cause of hospitalization in VA. Garvin, with the VA Salt Lake City (Utah) Health Care System, thus obtained VA funding and collaborated with colleagues to advance care in this area. She focused on the use of natural language processing, technology similar to that used by IBM Watson in VA...
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Dr. Robert Drapkin: The Story Behind America’s Declining Heart Health
American society today has become more passive and voyeuristic, spending a large portion of each day in front of computers, phones, tablets and TV screens or behind windshields. Occupational exercise has dwindled. Why are the trends going the wrong way? Robert Drapkin, M.D., a highly-respected board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, believes that although sufficient exercise is vital, poor diet acts as a barrier. Dr. Drapkin sees three main reasons for this:
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Precision Medicine Platform Now Open for Collaborative Discovery about Cardiovascular Diseases
The American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform — a global, secure data discovery platform, recently developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) — is now open for use. Researchers, physicians, computational biologists, computer engineers and trainees from around the globe can leverage this cloud-based resource to access and analyze volumes of cardiovascular and stroke data to accelerate the care of patients at risk of the number one killer in the United States and a leading global health threat...
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The Story of How Fake Sugar Got Approved is Scary As Hell
The common-sense wisdom about the most widespread artificial sweetener on the market, aspartame, is that it's perfectly safe. The substance laces more than 6,000 products and is added to diet versions of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, and Dr. Pepper. It is also sold under the brand names NutraSweet and Equal. It represents a multi-billion-dollar industry. Popular pieces across the internet in recent years have declared that concerns about aspartame are just a bunch of hype. A pediatrician and writer for The New York Times defends aspartame and says he regularly gives it to his kids. Vox dismisses concerns about the sweetener and includes a video about how safe the stuff is...
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Time To Measure Public Health Effectiveness
It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to actually gauge whether or not their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...
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