RT @MedicalReport: $170m apparel contract contains clause allowing @Nike to harvest personal data from @Umich athletes http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/sports/ncaafootball/wearable-technology-nike-privacy-college-football.html cc @Adam_K_Levin
Interestingly that's about the same as medical research overall. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/775780831050817537
Wow. "There is no significant evidence of long term efficacy of insulin on any clinical outcome in Type 2 diabetes." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27391319/
RT @dinapomeranz: Sri Lanka, one of the most malaria-affected countries just 60 years ago, is now officially malaria-free!https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/05/sri-lanka-malaria-free-world-health-organisation
RT @JohnKirk: Wikipedia is one the best things to happen during my lifetime. I only wish it had existed when I was young. https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/772477569392271361
RT @JohnKirk: All these people lost their jobs when spreadsheets became available and unemployment soared.Uh, wait. No it didn’t https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/772224755298512896
RT @erikbryn: Yep. This is playing out in autos, banking, retailing, medicine and many other fields. https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/772169124738764801
RT @hunterwalk: Honor is going to employ thousands & thousands of elderly home care professionals. ❤️ https://twitter.com/rubenharris/status/771086698411200512
"Epinephrine is off-patent, was being synthesized as early as 1906, and costs about ten cents per EpiPen-load." http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-drugs-vs-chairs/
RT @MarechalUSC: Unlike most actual journalists, @wikileaks (& @DrJillStein) don't give a fuck about ethics or collateral damage https://twitter.com/drjillstein/status/768961441697239040
RT @helengreiner: Robot Babies not effective birth control, Australian study finds http://www.wsj.com/articles/robot-babies-not-effective-birth-control-australian-study-finds-1472196507 via @WSJ
RT @JohnKirk: By virtually every objective measure, things are getting better……we just refuse to believe it. https://twitter.com/vigniro/status/768880294644645888
RT @xeni: I still have medical slides of my tumor tissue. Would be interesting to know if I coulda avoided chemo, so wild. https://twitter.com/xeni/status/768635590052982784
Did the introduction of modern birth control *raise* out-of-wedlock birth rates instead of lowering them? https://www.brookings.edu/research/an-analysis-of-out-of-wedlock-births-in-the-united-states/
RT @johnmccrea: If it gets decided by who attracts more ad dollars for prescription medications, it's not looking good for Buzzfeed. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/status/766023260249153536
RT @ricardo_hausman: Pulitzer-quality @nytimes report on Venezuela seen from the viewpoint of Malaria, illegal mining & state collapse. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/venezuela-malaria-mines.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
RT @JGreenDC: MUST READ: @nytimes report from Venezuela, where malaria has returned as the country's economy collapses http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/venezuela-malaria-mines.html
RT @monstro: “Biased data has become so common in medicine that 40 percent of therapies prescribed are later proved ineffective.” http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/08/the_data_for_or_against_floss_is_biased_and_terrible.html
RT @andrewsweiss: Creepy @DrJillStein video from Moscow gushing over Russian support for human rights, dinner w Putin, RT anniv party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Qhx2ON8RE&sns=tw
RT @michaeldweiss: As my radiation oncologist sister puts it, all her voters will likely expire of preventable diseases. https://twitter.com/jimw81/status/761027260774178816
RT @resnikoff: Dunno what Jill Stein thinks we learned from fascism's rise, but the Weimar Communist motto was "After Hitler, Us." http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/jill-steins-plan-to-stop-trump-by-electing-him.html
RT @jbarro: Jill Stein, like Donald Trump, believes a bunch of nonsense about vaccines because of course she does. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/
"A well-known frustration in the medical community: [blood] lab results have a lot of variability." http://www.businessinsider.com/a-doctor-weighs-in-on-theranos-2016-7
RT @whsource: "One week of bed rest leads to substantial muscle atrophy &induces whole-body insulin resistance". Movement matters.http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/29/db15-1661
RT @DegenRolf: Individuals with higher body mass index gave less harsh moral disapproval ratings for ethical violations. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916308674
RT @drfeifei: My talk - Guardian angels: towards AI-assisted care, delivered at Stanford's Big Data in Medicine conf last month. http://youtu.be/181aZ2lE9go
RT @stuartpstevens: This is like when the doctor puts the X-Ray up on the light and says,"See these dark areas?" https://twitter.com/taniel/status/747612823476310016
RT @JohnKirk: Abraham Lincoln said: "I don't like that man, I must get to know him better." Same principle works for tech. https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/747555846490570752
RT @fraserspeirs: Quite an amusing article once you click through the EU cookie banner for the billionth time. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/746798209180311552
RT @RadioFreeTom: Americans who can't live a normal life because they're on the lookout for terrorists need to be medicated. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/734485185148944384
RT @crampell: In 2013, US spent more on mental disorders than on any other medical condition. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2016/05/13/hlthaff.2015.1659
RT @BBCLeishaChi: Wow. Scientists have built world’s tiniest engine which could one day drive medical nano-robots through the body http://on.ft.com/1TGr6Y4
RT @ScottGottliebMD: Oh, I was worried they couldn't fully regulate practice of medicine in 962 pages. The 4,000 pages of guidance helps https://twitter.com/PAallergy/status/725515802980528128
