Apple prepares to pull Evi from the App Storeevi, the Siri-like iphone and Android app, is gong to be pulled from the itunes App store,
a fitness center, research space of 30, 000 square feet, a central plant, and parking.
Among the big businesses focused on its developments are representatives of Bayer Cropscience, General mills, Pepsico and Walmart.
and is poised to take up residence at other universities, train stations, hospitals, corporate campuses and shopping centers. Briggo will open a kiosk at Austin Bergstrom International airport this fall.
Numbers on the screen flashed quickly like digits on a blood pressure monitor, measuring things like temperature, pressure
24/7 (for the ER doctor at the hospital or the late-arriving passenger at the train station).
Investors are hearing a lot of pitches about medical devices and energy products these days, and then they see this,
and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals.
Dr. Carla Dove pulled out a stack of manila folders thicker than a phone book, filled with reports of bird strikes from around the world.
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and courtyards that include fitness facilities, artwork and cafes, some of which will be open to the public.
include mandates such as working with the seasons, no artificial ingredients, no antibiotics for animals, cage free birds and no GMO ingredients or hormones.
researchers discovered that an alarming percentage of the meat was contaminated with multi-drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus,
Los angeles, Chicago, Fort lauderdale, Flagstaff and Washington, D c. Meat and poultry inspectors usually look for many types of multi-drug-resistant bacteria,
The bacteria can cause skin infections and can lead to more serious illnesses such as pneumonia and sepsis.
Here's a summary of what the study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious diseases, found:
half of the meat sold in grocery stores are contaminated with S. aureus one in four samples were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics methicillin-resistant staph was found in three of the samples the staph are resistant to up to
nine different antibioitics, making it hard to treat However, The New york times reports that federal health officials estimate that staph accounts for less than 3 percent of all food-borne illnesses.
In a statement Friday, the American Meat Institute said the study was misleading. Businessweek reports staph infections occur only three percent of the time
and are not nearly as common as other foodborne illnesses like salmonella and E coli. Still
the study highlights a risky farming practice that began nearly 50 years ago. The researchers suggested that the super bug likely made its way into the food chain
and give them unnecessary antibiotics to promote their growth. This form of antibiotic abuse has gotten so widespread that healthy farm animals now receive around 70 percent of all antibiotics administered to farm animals.
The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves,
is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today, TGEN's Lance Price said in a statement.
Studies as far back as 1976 have shown a link between antibiotics and the spread of drug resistant bacteria in humans, reports Wired.
And last year though, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that farmers only administer antibiotics to sick animals to minimize the use of the drugs, reports CBS. One country at least,
Denmark, has paid heed to the potential risks and have quit giving their animals low-dose antibiotics.
Scientists hope they won't be the only one. via TGEN News Photo: procsilas Related on Smartplanet:
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they also are seeking to cut down on the potential toxins in their food, according to the data.
Said Raymond Fabius, the chief medical officer at the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters: There appears to be a generational difference in preference for organic foods.
The strong positive sentiment among young people indicated they are concerned more with exposure to toxins and place a higher premium on supporting local markets.
If we could get people to wash their hands six times a day we could cut infectious diseases in half.
but there are also health issues, education, and other social issues that feed into this. Example:
Backed by HRH Princess Haya of Jordan, Johnson & johnson, the Mayo Clinic and the U s. Surgeon general.
We need to start the fight against the scourge of noncommunicable diseases right now, the princess said.
Tech, sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farmmr. Greenthumb's latest gardening tool may just be...
is a hi-tech mobile trailer used for cultivating medicinal marijuana. The aptly-named Big Bud is a fully functional weed farm that features programmable lights,
But he did he took some time out of his hectic schedule to speak to this correspondent about dirt-free farming, wasteful agricultural practices and, of course, cannabis.
So about this trailer designed to grow marijuana, where did the idea come from? Oddly enough, it's something that's been done for about 30 years.
Old school marijuana growers started out planting them in shipping containers and buried the crops in the ground before they eventually switched to using trailers.
so what we did was just take it to the next level by implementing hydroponic technology and developing it into a full line of trailers for not only the medical marijuana community,
On the non-marijuana agricultural side, there's a need too. California, for example, every year loses some of it's agricultural land to dust bowling
Some of the things that indoor growing environments don't have are pests, molds and infections.
Currently, much of energy intensive light used to grow cannabis is wasted instead of being absorbed since plants can only photosynthesize so much of it.
With more and more states allowing the use of medical marijuana, what I'm seeing is broader acceptance of it.
I mean think of the actual patient that's using medicinal marijuana; it's probably a cancer
or HIV patient that can't hold down food because of the disease's affect on their appetite.
The last thing they need to be introducing into their system are extra toxins and parasites.
Giving them the marijuana from a sterilized environment like our trailers is a huge benefit to this industry.
So what kind of customers do you get who express interest in owning a Big Bud trailer?
You get everyone from ex-mortgage brokers to attorneys and doctors. It's been pretty interesting
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English physician and synthetic biologist Rachel Armstrong and architect Neil Spiller head of the School of architecture and Construction at the University of Greenwich in London, are working together to develop these kinds of materials,
and essentially can potentially grow an artificial skin. As the shell grows it could help better insulate
The cancer fighting pizzai never really understand it when people dismiss pizza as unhealthy food.
Pizza could help fight cancer. Yes, if the chef makes the sauce from the latest in tomato technology-genetically engineered purple tomatoes-a 16-inch pie could have the same health benefits as other foods such as blueberries and cranberries.
Purple tomatoes get their color from anthocyanin-a pigment also present in the berries and
a molecule believed to battle afflictions including cancer, coronary heart disease and strokes. According to The Independent in the U k.,a shipment of purple tomato juice is on its way from Canada to scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich
Anthocyanin has been shown to help fight cancer in animals. The BBC quoted John Innes'Prof Cathie Martin:
and cranberries that give them their health benefits -but you can apply them to foods that people actually eat in significant amounts
You could call it the Healthy Heart attack. Cover photo is from John Innes Centre
The demise of book publishing as we know itfor years the book publishing industry has been in turmoil over the future of books,
although they're regulated as drugs. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into law last year,
if someone were trying to sell your kids banana-flavored heroin in a vial they could suck (instead of having to chase the dragon),
The reason you don't have versions of this technology for cocaine, heroin or THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) is
because those particular substances are banned as dangerous drugs. Nicotine is just as dangerous, but because the tobacco industry has fought so hard in Washington for so long it's not yet treated that way.
Just so you know that if you decide to addict yourself to these things today, the FDA may make you quit them in 2012.
And that won't be easy
The future of the parking lotthe prominence of the parking lot in the United states is undeniable.
while 34.8 percent of those in schools without it were overweight. 2.)Can coffee stave off Type 2 diabetes?
A new study suggests your morning cup of coffee may be beneficial for thwarting Type 2 diabetes.
 Previous research has createdâ tenuousâ links between coffee and a reduced risk of the disease,
U s. Secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack indicted the new regulations may prevent thousands of foodborne illnesses a year--by modernizing the poultry industry and increasing efficiency.
and may reduce risk of diseases such as salmonella. 5.)UN considers U s a major ethanol offender.
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health, and safety (EHS) research. 3.)Nanotech innovations bring breakthroughs to market. The operators of a local scientific supply business hope they can help researchers find breakthrough developments in tiny tubes. 4.)Nanotechnology in the automotive industry.
as harder, stronger, lighter nanomaterials become commercially available. 5.)Chemist explores nanotechnology in search of cheaper solar cells.
organic food as consumer awareness grows about the health hazards of mass-produced, packaged, and prepared foods.
The rising risk of electronic medical recordsit was a low-tech burglary. No one thought that it would blossom into a high-tech security breach.
and tossed it through the window of a Sutter Health office building in Sacramento, Calif. It couldn't have been easier.
a network of doctors and hospitals in northern California, realized that one of the purloined computers contained the electronic medical data for more than four million patients.
the health records of 20,000 Stanford Hospital patients made their way onto a public website after the data were used accidentally as part of a job skills test.
The private medical data were exposed for nearly a year before officials ordered it taken down.
The sensitive personal information contained in medical records is becoming more accessible than ever as the United states embarks on a fast and unprecedented shift to electronic health records.
Today, many of these records are stored in databases called health information exchanges or HIES, which are linked together online--making a treasure trove of data accessible to myriad hospital workers, insurance companies and government employees.
Unsurprisingly, social security numbers, health histories and other personal data from breached or stolen electronic health records are used routinely by identity thieves.
Criminals can buy social security numbers online for about $5 each, but medical profiles can fetch $50
or more because they give identity thieves a much more nuanced look into a victim s life,
said Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of the advocacy group Patient Privacy Rights, which researches data breaches and works for tighter security on people's personal health records.
Some privacy experts worry that current federal law will allow pharmaceutical companies law enforcement, insurance providers and others to exploit these data without a patient s knowledge or consent.
The pharmaceutical industry already uses medical data--for example, pregnant women who use certain medications often will fill out a voluntary questionnaire asking for more information--to market new products as the child grows.
Worse, when records contain errors, linked electronic systems only magnify the errors, privacy groups argue--giving insurance companies
and employers inaccurate ammunition to deny employment to candidates. Yet the number of patient records contained in electronic databases is fueled ballooning
by billions of federal stimulus dollars. Recent healthcare legislation championed by U s. president Barack Obama furthers the cause
privacy concerns The federal government's $19 billion investment in electronic medical record conversion has created already a massive market for HIES,
which share patient records held in physicians offices with institutions large and small. Technology companies large and small, from IT industry heavyweights such as Google, IBM, General electric and Dell to startups, operate in the market.
The demand for this data has fueled indirectly a criminal enterprise that seems to be growing:
hospitals reported losses or thefts of electronic medical data 364 times from 2010 to 2011 in incidents that affected 18 million patients, according to Associated press reports.
Privacy lawyers and healthcare policy experts worry that the rapid transition could expose millions of medical records to profit-seeking companies and law-enforcement agencies without patients'consent.
Medical data means big business Today, there is no federal law in the U s. requiring that a patient be notified
when their records are added to an exchange. There is no way of knowing if and when thousands of people might gain access to your personal information, either:
there is little control over who can access it among the thousands of employees who work in a hospital,
from clerks to surgeons to third-party vendors hired to manage these new, complex systems. But the number of exchanges continues to grow.
--whether hospitals or insurance companies--doubled between 1997 and 2010, according to a study by the data privacy lab at Carnegie mellon University.
Pharmaceutical companies seek better information about their customers behavior while tabloid newspapers seek scoops on celebrities such as Britney spears and George Clooney, both of whom had leaked records by hospital employees who had no business
Our health records will have an enormous value in the future as genetic profiles are added, Tien said. So whatever rules we have for privacy and security,
Security loopholes Patient data is protected in some ways in the U s by a federal law known as HIPAA, the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
hospitals are required not by federal law to contact patients when their records are added to the exchange
Police investigators and prosecutors already use health records in many different kinds of cases, including health-care fraud allegations,
crimes committed in hospitals and even some rape and assault cases. Health information exchanges could increase access,
making the long arm of the law much longer by giving investigators access to a much larger pool of data.
Under HIPAA, police investigators can access medical records when they deem them necessary for a case.
Further, the Patriot act passed in 2011 to combat terrorism allows federal investigators to get access to medical records with a warrant.
The electronic health records system soon may provide the cops with access in their station to a terminal with everyone s health records,
The law says hospitals can disclose records to law enforcement at will, Gellman said. Cops can get records with no procedure at all.
Behind the data, a stigma But concern over medical privacy goes beyond privacy law, civil rights or even ethics.
When Peel opened her initial psychiatric practice in Brownsville Texas in the 1970s, many of her first patients in the U s.-Mexico border town had a similar concern:
could they pay to keep their medical records private? Word travels fast in Brownsville, a city of 175,000 people,
and Peel s patients were worried that if their paper records somehow became public, they would be stigmatized for their medical diagnoses.
Schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses continue to be understood poorly by the public; at the worst, those who suffer from them are stigmatized in their communities.
If the information leaked to an employer, it would have affected their jobs or reputations. All the time I've been practicing,
it s been a very important and delicate issue, Peel said. There are prejudices associated with psychiatric diagnoses.
People have powerful reactions to the names of these things. Once genetic profiles are added routinely to the mix,
access to electronic health data may predetermine who can get jobs or serve in public office,
While genetic information may help physicians fend off severe diseases earlier than ever it may also be used to stigmatize people who will be stripped of opportunity based on some familial history of disease.
If the world looked like that, Peel said, Lou Gehrig would never get a contract to be a ball player
if the team knew he had a disease that would degenerate his muscles, or Ronald Reagan would never get elected president
if they knew dementia ran in his family
'The Ruins of Detroit'were once Motor city's cathedralsdetroit once served as a paragon of American ingenuity.
Pharmaceuticals: 59,350 patents in 2010; down 0%from 2009. Medical Devices: 52,117 patents in 2010;
up 6%from 2009. Petroleum & Chemical engineering: 42,304 patents in 2010; up 9%from 2009.
Leaders include Bayer Cropscience, BASF and Sumitomo Chemical. Automotive In what may be a harbinger for things to come
Medical Devices Diagnostics equipment led the way in patent volume, with 35 percent of the industry,
but medical aids and oral administration showed the most growth, with 11 percent over 2009. Top diagnostics firms were all Japanese:
Pharmaceuticals If you're wondering what Big Pharma is up to, wonder no more: organics represent the majority of all patents from this industry, at 61 percent.
These goats produce human breast milkthis Spring brought news of goats engineered to lactate the building blocks of a malaria vaccine.
milking goats for drugs, or milking goats for human milk? And which work-around has a better chance of widespread adoption?
who've shown increased resistance to illness after drinking the milk. No word yet on when it will enter clinical testing in humans. via Co. Exist Photo:
Liz West/Flickr
This man's apples will never turn brownyou know that brownish tinge apple slices get after a few minutes on the counter?
The on-the-ground experience of apple growers is that risk of contamination is quite high,
There s always going to be some level of contamination and risk. Whether or not consumers are ready for more GMO fruit,
Dr. James Marshall of the University of Sheffield says. Because the honey bee brain is smaller and more accessible than any vertebrate brain,
but the usual suspects (viruses and bacterial infections) didn't have anything to do with the poor health of the trees.
According to the news release, initial observations suggest a negative effect on the health of the ash...
The Health Protection Agency states there is no consistent evidence to date that exposure to FR signals from Wi-fi
and WLANS adversely affect the health of the general population. Wageningen University via CNET and Popular Science
While the number of tree injuries is relatively small-51 people between 2006 and 2011,
Aside from Adriã Â, this event's heavyweights included the New yorkers Dan Barber and April Bloomfield, Australia's Ben Shewry, Andrã Â Chiang from Singapore, Enrique Olvera from Mexico city
a young talent with a history of drug addiction who will open his first restaurant, TMIP, in rural Indiana this spring.
The quality of other Lowcountry crops deteriorated as growers prioritized disease resistance and transportability over flavor.
walking ahead to warn off poisonous snakes and alligators. Half the group cut the rice with hand sickles
Baltzley selected shrimp, unaware that Laukkonen was allergic to it. He felt awful upon discovering the error,
Asia and South america, found that even these final refuges of threatened species are vulnerable to human encroachment and environmental stresses.
and forest-product exploitation were the strongest predictors of declining reserve health, said the study released this year.
They feel it's unfair for these companies to make huge profits, especially in the field of medicine,
The developed countries should pay us for it instead of pharmaceutical companies taking it for free. India pushed hard for the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS in 2010.
a drug that could fight fatigue and protect the liver. Palpu Pushpangadan, head of TBGRI, who had met the tribe in 1987
In 1995, the medicine was ready. In 1999, a fixed deposit was created for the tribe to receive $3, 000 annually till 2008.
Wilson-Rich completed his Ph d. in honeybee health in 2005. In 2006, honeybees started disappearing.
In other words, Colony Collapse Disorder is not the only thing affecting bees. But even though the physical urban environment supports healthy bees,
Since the 2006-2007 Colony Collapse Disorder there s been a growing concern about the survival of European honey bees.
Å Australia is the last country to not have been invaded by this disease --if and when it arrives to our shores,
it will be a stronger more evolved strain posing a significant threat to honey bees and our pollination services,
or swelling due to a bee sting does not equal an allergic reaction. Everyone gets that reaction, if anyone finds themselves having difficulty breathing then they are allergic to bees.
Honey bees often get mistaken for the European wasp. The two behave and want totally different things,
who conduct disease prevention and control programs for the benefit of beekeepers. An additional requirement of the bee registration is compliance with the Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 and Regulations
and the Apiary Code of Practice May 2011. Get involved The MCRH suggests a few ways we can help to restore the bee population:
diseases are on the rise and the future of the climate is uncertain? Dr. Roger Beachy, chief scientist of the U s. Department of agriculture, has some ideas.
He is the first director of the USDA s new National Institute of Food and Agriculture,
I talked to Dr. Beachy recently about how biotechnology can help put food on the table,
To ensure that healthiness and well-being are part of what we expect as humans; to have sufficient supply of safe
Then we will need a robust monitoring system to help us know what diseases are there now and
how do we ensure those plants are not susceptible to diseases? It may be more use of biological control mechanisms.
This will lead to developing new plant varieties that can cope with the diseases. We will need global monitoring
We d like the medical community to know more about the food we eat. It s a changing time that now allows, because of the nature of the challenges
So are you working with institutions like NIH? Yes. In order to get this work done, we need broader collaboration with the National Science Foundation
We have a relationship with NIH and the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control on a program to look at the sociology of healthy eating,
while at the same time making sure our programs encourage the establishment of small farms so food can be readily available to places that have been food deserts.
and you have to adjust their genetics to be more resistant to diseases or drought or flood.
And my doctor knows it and prescribes drugs accordingly
USDA, Russian scientists develop interactive crop mapthe U s. Department of agriculture and St petersburg State university have partnered to create a new website that offers geographic distributions of 100 crops,
640 crop threats and 560 wild crop relatives in Russia and neighboring countries. The maps,
pathogens or weeds that could harm local crops. Led by USDA plant geneticist Stephanie Greene and St petersburg State university scientist Alexandr Afonin,
If you're going to plague a high-density downtown with a parking garage, I can't think of a better addition.
According to global nonprofit medical center Mayo Clinic, celiac disease (in which your body is unable to process gluten) is four times more common now than it was 60 years ago.
I think, stems from our simultaneous obsession with pork and animal-centric cooking in general. Ramen perfectly encapsulates our hedonistic pleasure in eating--it's comforting
Weed killer causes new cancer fears; under EPA reviewglyphosate is the key ingredient in the world's top selling weed killer, Roundup.
And still others say it raises health concerns like infertility and cancer. Glyphosate's days are numbered,
The Environmental protection agency is examining the human and environmental health risks and has set a deadline of 2015 for determining
Some users of glyphosate were observed to have a higher risk of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting bone marrow,
The chemical could be contributing to spontaneous abortions and infertility in pigs, cattle, and other livestock,
citing research showing the chemical has extreme toxicity, including indications it can cause birth defects. The EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is in charge of the review
and has three main options: continued approval with no changes, canceling the registration to ban its use,
Bio-acoustics has been the study of the vocalization of animals, studying behavior, physiology, anatomy related to that.
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