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Good News/Bad News: Smoking and Obesity

When the American Tobacco Company launched its advertising campaign at women in 1928, with the slogan “Reach for a Lucky [MORE]

MIT’s NextLab Developing Health Applications for Cellphones

MIT’s NextLab challenges its students to imagine how cellphones could change the world,
MIT Develops Health Cell Phone Applications
based on [MORE]

Google Looking for Investments Opportunities

Search engine giant, Google, has launched Google Ventures (Cambridge, MA and Mountain View, CA) to fund investments [MORE]

Smart Pillbox

MedMinder Systems, Inc. (Newton, MA) has a new smart pillbox, called “Maya,” that holds 28 days of medications in single [MORE]

$290B in Costs for Non-Adherence to Medications

Perhaps the greatest medical accomplishment of the past half century has been the decline in mortality due to acute diseases [MORE]