Institute For The Future

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Asthma Alerts Through Social Networks

Arizona public health researchers are looking into updating asthma patients about environmental pollution through Twitter, Facebook and other social...

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How Quack Treatments Go Mainstream

Ineffective medical treatments become popular due to their ineffectiveness. Or, at least that's the conclusion of Mark Tanaka in a recent article ...

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I wanted to send this as a signal for the research areas I am focusing on for the map.  This is consistent with what the experts Fran Kaufman and Pat...

Smart Underwear May Prevent Ulcers

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Ars Technica reports that, according to a study conducted by the BI Norwegian School of Management, people who download music from P2P networks...

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GPS-Enabled Asthma Inhaler May Uncover Triggers

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have developed a GPS-enabled asthma inhaler that they hope will enable researchers to uncover new...

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I've been thinking about and blogging about innovation here for the better part of a year, as part of my ongoing research looking at how emerging...

Parkinson's Trial Points Toward Treatment Research Innovations

23andMe announced it has enrolled more than 2,000 patients into its Parkinson's Disease "community" since it first started recruiting Parkinson's...

The Washington Post reports on new Pentagon-sponsored research on energy efficiency, and the hard realities that now make it a priority:...

Richard Posner writes in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education about the current financial crisis, and why experts didn't take early warnings...

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There were no commercial airline fatalities in the United States in 2008. In contrast, in-hospital medical errors killed close to 98,000 people,...

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