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Quantifying the Value of Delivering a Smarter Shopping Experience
In this white paper, you'll learn the effects of the shopping experience on buying habits and business resiliency. Keep reading to hear more about improving your shopping experience and getting...
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Study: Depression, placebo effects and therapy
ust as we're finding that drugs may be less effective than therapy in treating mental illness, we're also finding that some forms of therapy are better than others.
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Expanding the pill business model
Naltrexone costs about $4.50/day, the price of a single pint of Guinness at my local pub. Cancer drugs cost much, much more. How do we apportion that cost among patients, insurers, employers and...
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Risks and potential in the polypill
The polypill revolution can mean enormous growth for the pharmacy regimen that has developed in the U.S. over the last 20 years, at a price much of the world can afford. The help it gives branded...
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Placebos the right prescription for the overwrought
The best family doctors are psychologists and trusted friends, not just gatekeepers. Some things can't be cured. People die. Conduct a practice in the real world and you learn that.
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Byetta and Januvia in battle of press releases
For patients, the real difference is that Byetta is a twice-daily shot and Januvia a once-daily pill. Advantage Merck.
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More bad news on diabetes
The standard protocol for prediabetes thus remains weight loss and exercise. The oldest pill in the doctor's bag, metformin, is your only choice if you can't follow that advice.
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Talk therapy becomes a luxury
The mind is the most complex organ ever created. Treating it is as much art as science. There are no guarantees with any treatment regimen. So why are insurers forcing pills down your throat?
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Herb does not ease ADHD
Taking St. John's Wort for ADHD is no better than a placebo.
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A necklace that checks the pills you take
I'm sure you've already failed to take some pills ordered by your physician. In fact, one in three adults forgets to take their medicines, and for lots of different reasons. Now, researchers at...
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A camera in a pill to detect cancer
This is not the first time that the idea of swallowing a pill with a camera inside to detect early signs of cancer has been tried (read this article for example). But now, researchers at the...
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Today's Debate: Do you take advantage of good insurance?
I have "the good insurance." But when some doctors see my policy I fear they also see a sign on me reading "sucker."
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Today's Debate: Is the cost villain really tech?
Really hard questions aren't even being asked amid all the finger-pointing, but the campaign season has just begun, so get used to it.
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Photos: Medication reminders of the future
Technology is offering a hand to people who need to be reminded to keep up with taking their pills.
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Photos: Medication reminders of the future
Technology is offering a hand to people who need to be reminded to keep up with taking their pills.
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Images: Swallow that probe
In the wake of a player's death, more football teams are looking at a pill that monitors body temperature.
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Images: Swallow that probe
In the wake of a player's death, more football teams are looking at a pill that monitors body temperature.
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SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: memory-erasing pills, 313 m.p.h. trains, military smartphones
SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: memory-erasing pills, 313 mile-per-hour trains, military smartphones and more in a news roundup from our friends at SmartPlanet.
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Study: Depression, placebo effects and therapy
ust as we're finding that drugs may be less effective than therapy in treating mental illness, we're also finding that some forms of therapy are better than others.
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News to know: Microsoft; Google; Dell; Robo-pills; Android;
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: A close-up look at the new...
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Gallery: From robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
While the debate over who's going to pay for health care rages on, technology that will assist the diagnosis and treatment of patients is falling into place.
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