February 9, 2013
Influenza, arguably, grew to epidemic proportions in the United States and Europe this year, according to Google Flu Trends. Search traffic for illness symptoms reached the most intense since the dawn of the information age. Fortunately, we now have the ability to defend against infection using resources derived from the Internet - in particular, social media. Facebook, Twitter and Google can tell us who among our friends might have a cold or flu.
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January 18, 2013
A new medical advice and registered nurse responder app, Urgent Care, is now available to US residents for free download in iTunes Store. It's a medical dictionary and encyclopedia, providing direct answers to medical questions, and it also provides instant access to a registered nurse and/or doctor, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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January 5, 2013
Even though I am the Managing Editor of MakeUseOf, I have a huge disability in my life which is clinical depression. It started back in 2002, as a depression related to stress in my job, and it exploded in 2003 resulting in a huge mental breakdown and full blown suicidal clinical depression. It was a very dark period in my life back then, and I wouldn't have wished those symptoms and feelings on my worst enemies.
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January 5, 2013
When it comes to medical issues, the best way to find out what is wrong is to go to a doctor. However, there is most certainly some value in getting a general idea of what could be wrong before you pay a trip to your local physician, using apps or the Internet. Of course, no app or website can replace the knowledge and skills of a doctor, and that is something you most certainly need to keep in mind before using an app like the one I am going to talk about today.
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January 4, 2013
When you show up to a doctor's office for the first time, one of the first things they ask you about is your medical history and what prescriptions you are taking. Keeping track of all this information is difficult, after all, how are you supposed to remember a small condition you had a few years ago? With a simple iPhone app, you can prevent this from being a problem ever again. With My Medical Info, you can keep all of your important medical data in one place.
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November 28, 2012
Talking to a doctor is one of the most unnerving experiences, a patient or a patient’s family has to endure. It is compounded by the lack of knowledge on how to go forward. Thanks to medical reference websites and mobile applications, the chasm between medical jargon and layman’s understanding can be reduced. The free WebMD iOS app should be an essential app you should be carrying 24x7 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
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November 22, 2012
Remembering to take your medication is obviously incredibly important. Depending on the reason you need to take a certain kind of medication, remembering the pill can literally be a matter of life and death. Even if it isn't as serious as that, the doctor prescribed the medication for a reason, and in order for it to it have any effect, you need to be consistent in remembering to take the medication.
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June 30, 2012
We are heading into an era of huge technological advances and achievements, especially in the field of medicine. Problems and conditions that may have literally been the death of you a hundred years ago may now be cured, simply by taking advantage of the latest medical technological breakthroughs. And 3D printing may have a huge part in that.
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March 7, 2012
It helps if family members and patients are more informed about an ailment so that they can ask apt questions and reduce their fears. Googling for medical information is of course the option web-savvy users can go for. Medical information is complex, so how it is organized and presented matters a lot. Medify is a medical research tool for the layman.
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March 6, 2012
The days of simple diagnoses and simpler one-pill that cures all is long gone. These days it’s a cocktail of pills that addresses every illness one is unfortunate to encounter. The geekiest option is of course, to turn to a trusted mobile app…in this case, any of these Android apps which can help to remind you to take pills on time.
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November 18, 2011
Recently, my wife and I started getting concerned because our eleven year old can never seem to hear us when we are talking to her. After suffering through several years of hearing "what?" from her, and having to constantly repeat ourselves, we're starting to think that maybe there's more to this phenomenon than selective hearing.
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May 18, 2011
We are living on the cutting edge of great medical leaps. Medical news and alerts help us to keep pace with these leaps. Let’s look at some top websites for medical news and stay alert with the help of their feeds.
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January 31, 2011
I just returned from the hospital. The consulting physician threw around words like “˜Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography’ without a stutter, but my brain hit a pothole. He went straight ahead to other words which made the health problem seem quite acute. Blame it on the medical words or blame it on my relative lack of medical [...]
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December 31, 2010
You can put your money on virtual reality and virtual worlds becoming part of our daily lives. One of its greatest impacts will be felt on education and health. You can already get hints of the value educators (and others) placed on 3D virtual tools from the success of virtual globes like Google Earth. Virtual worlds [...]
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December 17, 2010
It seems out of place bringing up such a serious topic on depression and bipolar disorder when the festivities are just around the corner. But it is one of those attacks that’s out there and doesn’t appreciate seasons. In fact, the socially busy holiday season can act as a catalyst. Though there are many different [...]
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