Health

And in the case of these cancer maps released every year by the University of Iowa, you can find sadness, sickness, and recovery; everything that can come with cancer. You can also find which factors correlate with cancer: lower income, rural areas. - WOI TV Esri Ireland is the first...

A team of researchers used an algorithm similar to the Google PageRank and to the Viterbi Algorithm for digital communication to gain important insights about the spread patterns of lung cancer. The team includes experts from the University of Southern California (USC), Scripps Clinic, The...

  New research on the formation of spatial memory in the brain Forbes' Billionaires World Map Doug Richardson of @theAAG speaks on geo and #health on today's Science Mag podcast, article he and colleagues published in Science Map publisher points its compass in digital direction...

Pennsylvania is among 42 states that have reported cases of largely untreatable infections caused by a drug-resistant bacteria called CRE, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its website.... CRE cases were identified in the report only by region — Northeast, Midwest,...

With an increasing awareness of the cost of healthcare and the relative costs of prevention and treatment, health data are more important than ever to making wise investments in healthcare services and infrastructure.  Healthcare professionals, politicians and ordinary citizens all have an...

 The K-State Health and Nutrition Society researched how many calories are burned walking between many common locations on campus. They published the results on K-State’s website. Using averages for students size and pace and details from the CDC the graphic (pdf) details how many trips...

The new affordable care act limits how insurance companies can offer differential rates. One way that's still in the mix is geography. The federal government has proposed that a state should not create more than seven geographic rating areas to prevent insurers from charging excessively high...

Folks working on a data specification for flu shot locations are looking for input. The Google Doc is open to comments. via @mheadd via @timoreilly It seems Google Flu Tracker over estimated this years peak. Why? But the latest US flu season seems to have confounded its algorithms. Its...

WebMD Health Corp. (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading source of health information, announced today its new WebMD Allergy app for the iPhone,  an innovative new mobile resource that empowers consumers to take control of their allergies. It is the first free app to provide allergy sufferers with...

As part of the norwegian research project "Trygge Spor," more than fifty dementia sufferers have been using GPS for periods varying from several weeks to up to a year. The results show that localisation technology helps achieve an increased sense of security, freedom and quality of life, both...