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Predict & prevent: Google’s infectious disease
10.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Today, emerging diseases are generally detected once they are already entrenched in the human population, and response systems are often slow and uneven. This initiative supports the move from a reactive to a proactive response to emerging threats.
Google.org has just announced a $15m initiative entitled Predict & Prevent, the goal of which is to understand [...]
Preventing death: A simple answer, but a difficult solution
10.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I find preventive medicine to be fascinating, and doubly fascinating when it’s cheap. But while amazing doctors such as Dean Ornish, a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Institute, are giving humans hope for a greater quality of life, there is a very high potential, if culture and economics are ignored, [...]
Breast cancer prevention
10.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Truly interesting article written by Sarah Bosely, health editor at The Guardian, today on breast cancer prevention. What initially caught my eye was the word “prevention” in the title, as it is painfully obvious preventive health care measures are the only true solutions to shifting population-level trends. What then caught my eye in the article, [...]