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The last time your doctor asked how much you exercise, did you tell the truth? Do you even really know the truth-not just how many visits to the gym you've made this month, but how many hours you sit or how many calories you burn in a day? What if your doctor had already received the information from a tiny device built into your cell phone, wallet, or undershirt? Sonny Vu believes a device like this could fundamentally change health care. "You can't just lie to your doctor-it's all there, recorded," he says. "You cut right to the chase rather than having to tease out all that information."

Keeping you mind really is about use it or lose it.  Langer had already shown that memory loss-a problem often blamed on aging-could be reversed by giving elderly people more reasons to remember facts; when success was rewarded with small gifts, or when researchers made efforts to create personal relationships with their subjects, elderly memory performance improved. she and Yale colleague Judith Rodin found that simply giving nursing-home residents plants to take care of, as well as control over certain decisions-where they would meet guests, what activities to do-not only improved their subjects' psychological and physical health, but also their longevity: a year and a half later, fewer of those residents had died. What she found, however, surprised even her own team of researchers.

The first online 3-D interactive search tool of the human body was released today.  It allows a user to view and navigate the human anatomy, male or female, down to the finest detail-from the muscles and deep muscles to the nerves, arteries, vessels, and bones. This new tool, called BodyMaps, was developed by Healthline Networks, a company that provides medical information to consumers online, and GE Healthyimagination, a Web-based platform that shares and promotes projects that focus on consumer health, such as apps or healthy how-to videos.

When working with remote employees, managers often don't have the luxury of relying on visual cues to tell if an employee is truly understanding instructions or feedback. The blank stare, the quizzical look, the phony nod of understanding - all of these staple non-verbal indicators of, "I don't get it" (or, "I'm not paying attention") are usually unavailable when working in a virtual environment.

Body area network (BAN), wireless body area network (WBAN) or body sensor network (BSN) are terms used to describe the application of wearable computing devices

Where do great ideas come from? Many of us imagine creativity comes from an environment of boundless possibility - no rules or restrictions. We also have a stereotype of "creatives" - they work in studios rather than office buildings, wear jeans instead of suits and are filled with endless creative solutions. But why should creativity be the province of a totally open environment or a certain type of person? We falsely think that if our world or profession is constrained, we cannot enjoy wild creativity. That isn't the case. Here are some examples and ways that you can make creative constraint work for you and your business.

This wiki tries to reveal the bio-chemistry of the human body. Just one helpful person between me and the leader of this project. With which questions or objectives does the team want me to contact him?

a collection of known pathways of molecule production and disappearance; or connections between molecules through "digestion".

Nessa Carey talks about how DNA is not a template to make lots of identical clones, but a script:  her example is Romeo and Juliet....the words can be the same but what comes out at the end on stage or screen can be totally different.

Dutch researchers recently demonstrated a new type of wireless body area network, or BAN for short. A BAN essentially gives the human body its own IP address, and the new techniques demonstrated at IMEC based in Eindhoven incorporate a dongle that plugs into the SD card slot of a cellphone, enabling the streaming of data from the sensors to the cellphone in real time.

Sleep, or lack of it, can determine level of cognitive performance which is linked with accidents as well as increased risk of serious health problems. Links between cell energy levels, gene transcription and sleep rhythms may uncover answers to sleep disorders and the ill-effects of sleep deprivation.

This is an updated version of an article that I published in 2009. Alas in the 3 years or so that have passed since I wrote it, little seems to have changed beyond the fact that the crisis in the pharmaceutical industry has deepened to the point that even the biggest companies in the sector are starting to question whether their current business model is sustainable.

Like fitbit. This is a wearable bit of kit that can track your daily habits. It can even remind you to be active or wake you up at the right part of your sleep cycle.  Complements an iphone app. Hopefully and android one will come along soon. Released in the US on november 6 2011. Not sure when it will reach the uk. 

""Mucus is everywhere," says microbiologist Jeremy Barr. Almost every animal uses it to make a barrier that protects tissues that are exposed to the environment, such as the gut or lungs. Now, Barr and a team of researchers have discovered that mucus is also the key to an ancient partnership between animals and viruses."

Thys suggested this. I had a quick glance. If it can be delivered on the web, flash or preferably html then it would be very helpful.

just to show that the content has already been created. So this will either be a competitor or a partner. It's up to us to figure out which

Also see: http://www.visiblebody.com/ (lead by Argosy) http://www.thevisualmd.com/ (beautiful (somewhat over-sexual) media of the body based on MRI, CT, ultrasound, etc) http://www.zygote.com/ The ones who contributed the atlas for the Google Body Browser I've spoken with Argosy and they do have a collaborative option, although it didn't feel like the right vibe. When we have developed an authoritative, open-authorship atlas, I see these groups as contributors helping to do some of the heavy lifting in the medical animation department. If they don't want to collaborate let them compete. Perhaps I'm being assumptive, but so single company can compete with the world working together freely.

I wonder if we could use this or similar work in parsing the info once we go live with the crowd sourcing.

The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. "this is the future. everything is going to look and feel like this within five years," says creator roel vertegaal, the director of queen's university human media lab,. "this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. you interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.

Lectures made sense before the invention of the printing press, argues Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur, but at this point in history they are far from the best way to transmit large amounts of information or to make use of face-to-face time in the classroom.

Welcome to JWS Online! JWS Online is a Systems Biology tool for simulation of kinetic models from a curated model database. Click on the Model Database tab to access the models, or on the other tabs for more information.

"Harvest is an app that uses augmented reality to display custom information for people with allergies and special diets. This concept and prototype design aims to help millions with dietary restrictions due to health, ethical, or religious reasons."