Medical Technology

@WIRED 9 months ago

“You have a right to your records.” This week’s @WIRED Classics revisits @mcgowankat’s 2016 feature about our medical records. Data generated by your body is routinely captured and sold by health care companies. Shouldn’t you benefit from it, too? https://www.wired.com/2016/02/our-medical-data-must-become-free/ https://t.co/gIFdad8m0H

@WIRED 1 year ago

Join us tomorrow at #WIREDHealth to explore and map the future of health. The event gathers medical practitioners, health technologists, pharmaceutical leaders and entrepreneurs for a day of eye-opening and inspirational stories. Get your tickets now: https://health.wired.com/ https://t.co/KOuQ4VFHtf

@WIRED 2 years ago

Researchers found that an attacker with access to a health care facility's network could take control of popular infusion pump and dock that a determined hacker could manipulate to administer a double dose of medication to victims: https://wired.trib.al/pizI338 : Angel Garcia https://t.co/Q09CanhdJu

@WIRED 4 years ago

Is telemedicine the future? Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, Co-Founder and Medical Director of Carbon Health, talked with WIRED's @nxthompson about potential bottlenecks to making telemedicine widely available. Watch the entire interview: https://wired.trib.al/M9lLpCq https://t.co/UQFcTlUu0T

@WIRED 4 years ago

Join us for a Facebook Live today on the role of telemedicine during the coronavirus pandemic. In partnership with @Salesforce, WIRED's Nick Thompson and Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, Co-Founder and Medical Director of Carbon Health, will take your questions. https://wired.trib.al/9lFAiNn https://t.co/RkIwsdQuuW

@WIRED 4 years ago

Join us for a special FB Live on the role of telemedicine during the coronavirus pandemic this Friday, 7am PT/10am ET. In partnership with @Salesforce, WIRED's EIC Nick Thompson and Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, Co-Founder and Medical Director of Carbon Health will take your questions. https://t.co/5dGZPt3qdp

@WIRED 4 years ago

Craig Spencer, Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center: “You’re notified of another really sick patient coming in. You rush over. They’re also extremely sick, vomiting. They need to be put on life support ...” 8/ https://t.co/Ic9S5iLVDQ

@WIRED 5 years ago

Your Life Decoded, December 2007 “For a long time, WIRED didn’t cover much health care or medicine... The biggest shift was the arrival of true consumer genomics, and we were lucky enough to get an exclusive on 23andMe in 2007.” https://wired.trib.al/ot3amNA 4/ https://t.co/qoYbqBeWxv

@WIRED 5 years ago

With all the recent privacy scares, it’s kind of a weird time to be asking a million people to voluntarily hand over decades of health records and DNA ...

@WIRED 6 years ago

If social policy doesn’t deal with America’s ongoing social and political homelessness crisis, it’s going to be an even worse public health problem ...

@WIRED 6 years ago

While it’s true that yes, the US is in the midst of a “historic drug epidemic,” marijuana is not the drug that kills 91 Americans every single day.

@WIRED 6 years ago

While it’s true that yes, the US is in the midst of a “historic drug epidemic,” marijuana is not the drug that kills 91 Americans every single day.

@WIRED 6 years ago

To catch regulators up to Silicon Valley speed, the FDA is creating a new unit dedicated strictly to digital health.

@WIRED 6 years ago

To catch regulators up to Silicon Valley speed, the FDA is creating a new unit dedicated strictly to digital health.

@WIRED 7 years ago

Because preventative medicine is the best medicine, especially when it comes to mental health.

@WIRED 7 years ago

Because preventative medicine is the best medicine, especially when it comes to mental health.

@WIRED 7 years ago

We're live at The White House Frontiers Conference where President Obama, Atul Gawande and other innovators are talking about future breakthroughs in medicine ...

@WIRED 7 years ago

After a nearly year-long ban, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin accepting grant applications from research labs that want to develop human-animal ...

@WIRED 8 years ago

Dutch reproductive health group Women on Web has said it will offer free medical abortions for Zika-infected pregnant women who live in countries that ...

@WIRED 8 years ago

For the most pressing medical issue facing the NFL today—head injuries—a mouthguard acts as an early warning system. #sb100

@WIRED 8 years ago

While scientists do not yet agree on what the "obesity paradox" means for health, most accept the evidence behind it. (via Quartz)

@WIRED 8 years ago

As Figure 1 grows, it has the potential to become global health’s central nervous system—improving diagnostics, care, and treatment for non-users everywhere. ...

@WIRED 8 years ago

Google says it has worked with a team of doctors to determine what medical information should pop up and ensure the accuracy of the results.

@WIRED 9 years ago

This freelance writer suffers from severe Tourette’s syndrome, but his prescription medication costs $720 a month in America (and that's with health insurance)....

@WIRED 9 years ago

"Facebook and Apple and all companies would do well by their employees to hold fertility vendors to the highest possible standards and not inadvertently put worker's physical and mental health in jeopardy."