美国国家公共电台 NPR Researchers Gather Health Data For 'All Of Us'

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Now to a story about a big data approach to medicine with a big price tag - hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. It's called the All of Us Precision Medicine Initiative. It's an effort to gather blood samples, medical inform

PBS高端访谈:智能手机对一代人的影响

Now: how our increasingly wireless world is affecting our social behavior, especially among the generation that has grown up with smartphones. William Brangham has that. The promise of social media, as the name implies, is that it connects us to each

VOA标准英语2010年-Growing World Population Stresses Gove

According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir

Most Large US Public Colleges Fail to Keep Records on Suicides

Most large public universities in the United States do not keep records of how many students have taken their own lives. Yet many American colleges and universities are making investments in suicide prevention. And the demand for mental health servic

‘Smart’ Thermometers Record Spread, Intensity of Influenza

When a child feels sick, one of the first things a parent does is reach for a thermometer. That common reaction got one man thinking. Inder Singh is a health policy expert. He wondered what if the thermometer, in addition to measuring body temperatur

谷歌医疗数据交易引发质疑

This is the story of two deals and the future of healthcare in the UK. 这是一个关于两笔交易以及英国医疗卫生事业未来的故事。 The first was made in September 2015, under which three UK hospitals in the Royal Free NHS Trust han

TED演讲:医学的未来?也许是手机上的一个应用程序(4)

Now if you have trouble maintaining your diet, 如果你不能保持节食， it might help to have some extra imagery to remind you how many calories are going to be coming at you. 一些图像也许会有助于提醒你食物里有多少热量。 H

VOA标准英语2010年-Physician Uses Cell Phones to Bring He

Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a diff

VOA标准英语2010年-AIDS 2010 Calls for Treatment and Prev

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread, new research shows its taking an increasing toll on men-having-sex-with men or MSM. The issue was addressed at the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, with calls for greater funding and human ri

VOA标准英语2010年-E-Health Gains Traction in Developing

Rwanda is actually at the leading edge of developing nations in tapping these technologies to advance health and health care. - Susan Dentzer Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But t

VOA标准英语2013--Texting Becomes a Health Tool in Kenya

Texting Becomes a Health Tool in Kenya Mobile phone use in Africa has spread far, wide and fast. By the end of last year, it was estimated that 70 percent of the population would have a mobile phone. Now, the International Federation of the Red Cross

美国国家公共电台 NPR Montana Wildfires Provide A Wealth Of Data On Health Effects Of Smoke Exposure

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Wildfires in the Seeley Lake area of Montana this summer were longer and more intense than any in recent memory. Though they didn't reach B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Nora Saks with Montana Public Radio reports that

美国国家公共电台 NPR Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are many other digital devices on the market that claim they can improve your health. Wearable technology can track your fitness, your blood pressure, your heart rate. But can all this tracking actually lead to cheaper and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

NOEL KING, HOST: Insurance companies and data brokers are more and more often using your personal information from social media to predict your health care costs. And they are exploring ways to use that data to determine the rates that you will pay.

财富精英励志演讲51：信息技术的力量(6)

The second type of deep computing is what we call data mining -- some people call it business intelligence, the ability to extract inside from mountains of information, and see relationships and trends that previously were not available or invisible.

经济学人:病人数据 关爱和分享

Patient data 病人数据 Caring and sharing 关爱和分享 A controversial NHS database will benefit patientseventually 颇有争议的英国国民保健服务数据库将最终惠及病人 NESTLED among offers for tree trimmers, cleaners and slank

PBS高端访谈:实时健康数据会给电子消费者带来健康生活吗?

JUDY WOODRUFF: More than 100,000 people turned out for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the annual showcase for the latest in technology, devices and high-end toys. One of the big themes was the rising interest in health tech. Ou

世界卫生组织：全球92%人口呼吸着污染空气

Nine out of ten people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. 世界卫生组织昨天表示，每十个人就有九个呼吸着不良空气。 In a staggering report, calling for dramatic action

经济学人193:科技公司和医疗保健 头文字云

Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising America's health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗？ About time we caught up with th

China mulls mortality database for health assessment

FUZHOU, April 11 (Xinhua) -- China is preparing to set up a national mortality database to obtain cause-of-death information, marking a step toward establishing a monitoring network for health risk factors across the country, an official said Wednesd