Health Science | Peeling Away Health Care’s Sticker Shock
The health care industry plays a gigantic game of Blind Man's Bluff, keeping patients in the dark while asking them to make life-and-death decisions. The odds that they will make the best choice are...
View ArticleHow Facebook Is Transforming Science and Public Health
Facebook has encompassed many things in its nine-year run. From a subtler version of a dating site to a gaming platform and a messaging hub. We’ve seen Facebook and its billion-plus users play a part...
View ArticleMedicine for the Rich Is About to Get Cheap Enough for Regular People
It’s a pattern we keep seeing repeated across the tech landscape in PCs, displays and cell phones. Hardware prices drop to commodity levels, and the action and the value all migrates to software. After...
View ArticleHealth Science | Fixing a Broken Drug Business by Spreading the Wealth
You might plausibly argue that ice cream parlors and bobby socks reached a peak back when Elvis was still the king, but drug discovery? Not a chance, which is why it’s all the more alarming that the...
View ArticleStartups | To Hack Health Care Costs, Employers Can Now Track How You Grocery...
A just-launched online service called NutriSavings will give workers coupons and cash back to encourage the purchase of more nutritious foods. In exchange, you'll have to lift the curtain a little on...
View ArticleHealth Science | Keep Tabs on Your Baby Bump With This New Smartphone App
There are loads of pregnancy-related apps out there to help you get knocked up or monitor your progress once you’re with child, but Wildflower Health’s advantage is its tie-in with the healthcare...
View Article10 Questions | Healthcare Is Broken. And This Designer Thinks She Can Fix It
Healthcare is notorious for being technophobic, clunky and downright ugly. No one knows this better than Gretchen Wustrack, who is trying desperately to change that.
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