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Global Wellness Market Grows to $5.6 Trillion

January 30, 2024 | | Posted in Newsletter

Dimensions of Wellness
“Global wellness drew $5.6 trillion in revenue in 2022 and is poised to generate $8.5 trillion by 2027, [MORE]

The Synbio Gold Rush to Mother’s Milk

May 10, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

Hacking mother’s milk
“Imagine we created a dream food—a superfood—something which, if consumed more widely could reduce cancer risk, boost our [MORE]

Whole Genome Sequencing for $599

March 3, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

myGenome testing
In case you missed it, the company Harvard geneticist George Church founded, Veritas Genetics (Danvers, MA) has lowered the [MORE]

Transfusion Medicine—Opportunities?

March 20, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Blood Transfusion
Many of our readers are opportunity-minded, i.e. innovators looking for something to make better. And, there’s hardly a medical [MORE]

Hospitals’ Price to Cost Ratio

February 4, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

The Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy has listed the 100 hospitals in the US with the highest price [MORE]

Automation Causes Job Losses

September 17, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Destroying jobs chart
At least since Parson Malthus’ gloomy predictions about population growth, economists have wallowed in dismal forecasting, which [MORE]

Selling Patient Data

August 27, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Patient privacy laws protect people from having their medical records sold by doctors and hospitals.  But state agencies which [MORE]

FCC Report: Evaluation of Rural Health Care Pilot Program

November 18, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

The Federal Communications Commission has been making pilot study grants for several years to test the best way of [MORE]

Understanding Medicare

October 2, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

It was an interesting contrast, between the UK celebrating its National Health Insurance in the opening ceremonies of the [MORE]

Collective Behavior, Supermarketing, and Obesity

September 11, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

What accounts for the so-called “obesity epidemic?”  Suddenly, have millions of people decided they want to be fat? While [MORE]

Panasonic’s North American Healthcare Group

July 3, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Japan’s consumer electronics giants, which once dominated the world market for televisions, music machines, and cameras, have been losing [MORE]

Making Money from Big Data

June 12, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Will “big data” analytics become the basis for a new wave of industrialization, across multiple sectors?  McKinsey & Company [MORE]

Vodafone Pursuing mHealth

June 5, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Health care now accounts for one in five American jobs—more than that of manufacturing—and a third of all new [MORE]

The Other 1%

February 28, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has reported that 1% of healthcare consumers account for 22% of the [MORE]