Google hires a health care CEO to organize its fragmented health initiatives
The Verge
Google first broke into health care with the launch of Google Health in 2008, but their initiatives have been fragmented over the years and span across several teams. In hopes of expanding into the health care sphere, Google hired Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to provide strategic direction and unify its health care ventures. [ read more]
American Cancer Society CMO resigns over society's 'questionable' fundraising ties
Becker’s Hospital Review
After 11 years with the organization, American Cancer Society Chief Medical Officer Otis Brawley, MD, stepped down from his position over concerns with the direction of the society’s fundraising ties. Dr. Brawley reportedly was growing more uncomfortable with the reliance on donations from businesses with ‘questionable health credentials,’ like controversial supplements company Herbalife International. [ read more]
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Harvard Medical School receives ‘transformational’ gift The Washington Post [article limits] Harvard Medical School received the largest gift in its 236-year history: $200 million. The medical school hopes the gift from Len Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation will allow them to ‘accelerate research and develop new tools to diagnose, prevent and treat disease.’ [ read more]
Medical students at ECU take part in live-action mass casualty training WNCT Students at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and College of Nursing in North Carolina took part in ‘Disaster Day’ to practice what to do in a mass casualty situation. With both man-made mass casualties and disasters becoming more common, the students learned the ‘tenants of triage’ so they’re able to deliver the best care possible to the most patients. [ read more]
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Watch beatboxers break it down inside an MRI scanner The New York Times [article limits] Researchers studied how beatboxers make noise in an effort to learn more about how the human body produces language. The scientists looked at how knowing different languages influences mouth movements and how beatboxers acquire new skills, hoping to develop algorithms that can accurately describe the ‘dynamics of the vocal tract.’ [ read more]
Cases of mysterious paralyzing condition continue to increase, CDC says NPR The illness starts as a fever, followed by mild respiratory symptoms; but some cases are seeing sudden paralysis within days after the first symptoms appear. What’s the cause? Health officials say the cause of the condition remains a mystery, but they’re working to quickly find a solution after at least 252 cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been reported so far this year. [ read more]
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