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With the development of civilization into urban areas, agriculture has been forced to adapt to less space and limited resources. Developments in urban farming and robotics have produced the personal food computer, a device producing a controlled environment for hydroponic plant growth. As many pharmaceuticals originate from chemicals found in plants, investigation of chemicals relevant to human health...
In this paper, we describe how we used a smartphone app to collect migraine data. The users log their migraine details in the app with the purpose of discovering their migraine triggers. We analyze details of over half a million migraines and we report some novel findings that traditional studies missed because of their rigid clinical setting. We report the most common triggers, symptoms, relief methods,...
This article explores the use and potential of games and gamification in clinical trials. Case examples of games used in three contextual areas are presented: education about clinical trials to encourage consideration of trial participation, the use of games to measure objective health outcomes, and the use of gamification approaches to drive positive patient compliance behavior and reduce unnecessary...
Electronic prescribing is the alternative to the current method of manually written prescriptions in hospitals. It has many benefits for those prescribing and dispensing medicines, and also for the maintenance of medical records. The complexity of the use of medications has increased enormously, leading to a greater risk of errors. E-prescribing is less prone to error, it provides a better and more...
Patient social media sites have emerged as major platforms for discussion of treatments and drug side effects, making them a promising source for listening to patients' voices in adverse drug event reporting. However, extracting patient reports from social media continues to be a challenge in health informatics research. In light of the need for more robust extraction methods, the authors developed...
GIS-based environmental health management information system is a feasible solution to the management of complex data on the environment and health. It has certain advantages such as the coordination of governmental work and promotion of public participation.
Despite the excellence of health research done in several countries of different levels of development, it is a reality that few of this research result in new and better drugs and treatments for neglected diseases that affect one-sixth of the world's population. Several reasons contribute for this perverse reality. In this paper we bring to notice that it is not enough to master physical technology...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is treated by means of deep brain stimulation (DBS), a therapy based on the injection of current on a regular basis into the basal ganglia, a set of small subcortical nervous system nuclei. DBS is effective in relief of motor symptoms and leads to a notable reduction of drug dose. From an engineering viewpoint, it also raises several optimization-related issues, like energy...
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