The Magic of Big Data: New Way of Visualizing Disease

GE partnered with a team of computer scientists and programmers at MITs SENSEable City Lab to produce Health InfoScapean interactive, customizable data visualization that leverages 7.2 million files from the Medical Quality Improvement Consortium, GEs electronic medical records database, available to customers through GEs EMR software. The data vis aims to create new ways of understanding human health in the United States.

via senseable.mit.edu
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How Much Sunscreen Should I Wear?

How much sunscreen should I wear?. This simple question took David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer on a massive journey through the data, information myths and misinformation that surround our perception of sunscreen. He calling it the Sunscreen Smokescreen.

via www.informationisbeautiful.net

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Which Countries are Faced with a 'Critical' Health Worker Shortage?

There are 57 countries with fewer than 23 health workers for every 10,000 people, as a result infant and maternal mortality rates far exceed that of developed countries, such as the UK and US

via www.guardian.co.uk
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The fight against AIDS

UNAIDS, the UN body charged with combatting the AIDS epidemic, released its latest report. This carries good news. Though some 33m people are infected, the rate of new infections is falling—down from 3.1m a year a decade ago to 2.6m in 2009. Moreover, as the map shows, the figure is falling fastest in many of the most heavily infected countries. The reason is a combination of behavioural change, a big reduction in mother-to-child transmission at birth and through breast-feeding, and the roll-out of drug treatment for those already infected.

via www.economist.com

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