Health and Wellness

Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS. The baby, born in rural Mississippi, was treated aggressively with antiretroviral drugs Continue Reading →

In the final round of a televised game show that pitted top players against IBM’s AI program Watson, a humbled human jotted down an aside to his written response: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Now even doctors are speaking that way. “I’d like to shake Watson’s hand,” says Mark Kris, an oncologist Continue Reading →

I’ve been looking at a lot of people’s wrists lately. Not because I have some weird fetish or anything. I’m curious about whether wearable devices like the Nike+ FuelBand and Jawbone Up are really taking off. While that remains to be seen (I’ve only spotted about a dozen in the wild), it hasn’t stopped device manufactures Continue Reading →

Thanks to a boom in digital health, the smartphone has assumed the role of everything from an ever-present fitness coach to FDA-approved heart monitor. And, as consumers move to mobile platforms, surveys show that more people are not only turning to their mobile devices for health information, they’re quickly imbuing the new technology with a Continue Reading →

Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the “science of medicine.” Take fever as an example. For 150 years, doctors have routinely prescribed antipyretics like ibuprofen to help reduce fever. But in 2005, researchers at the University of Miami, Florida, ran a study of 82 intensive care patients. The patients were Continue Reading →

Buried amongst Nintendo America’s amusing (and often silly) Direct presentation from today comes news of the next iteration of its popular lifestyle experience: Wii Fit U. Outside of a few brief screens and a very vague first half of 2013 release window, not much is known about the updated title save for one bit — Continue Reading →

In a world of “big data,” IBM offers “the engine for faster insights.” You may remember a computer that trounced the best Jeopardy players of all time, including 74-game winner Ken Jennings. That computer was named Watson, a cognitive system that IBM says may transform how organizations think, act and operate in the future. Watson’s Continue Reading →

Ideal Life has created an easy and affordable system to remotely manage health and wellness, especially for chronic conditions that account for most of today’s healthcare spending: diabetes, congestive heart failure, hypertension, asthma, and obesity. Check out the Ideal Life BP Manager. It’s a great blood pressure measuring device not only because of its ease Continue Reading →

Know your body. Change your life. That’s the motto for BodyMedia, a company that vows to unlock and decipher the body’s secrets. It wants to empower you to help you improve your life. BodyMedia says it is driven by the belief that its work helps you change your life for the better. It wants to Continue Reading →

The woman was gravely ill. Her name was Ms. Yamato. Thirty-seven years old, born in Osaka, Japan, she had never smoked, and yet there it was anyway: a spot on her lung. A doctor had already performed a bronchoscopy and had made the diagnosis of cancer. Then he referred the patient to Mark Kris, an Continue Reading →