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One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000
For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap
More than 700,00 people live in assisted-living centers, where they get help with daily activities like bathing and dressing. Most of the residents have multiple chronic health conditions.
The Hidden Costs of Aging, Video Features People Aged 1 to 102
“The Hidden Costs of Aging”is a short video that looks at some of the costs and statistics of aging, including how many calories we consume, how many hours of commercials we watch, and the amount of money we spend on healthcare.
Here’s How To Make The Perfect Cup Of Tea
No more guessing about how long to let your green tea, black tea, or white tea steep — this helpful chart of sorts has broken it down to the best temperatures and times for six common types of tea.
How to Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day
We all know that smoking is bad for our health and that eating vegetables is good for it. Yet how bad and how good are they? Without a clear notion of threat and reward, it is that much harder to avoid a cigarette or to choke down a serving of broccoli. “I hate when someone tells me that something is risky,” says David Spiegelhalter, a professor of risk assessment at the University of Cambridge. “Well, compared to what?”
33 percent of Americans feel pressured to go to work even when they’re sick. But you can transmit the flu from up to 6 feet away.
Maybe you should think about staying home next time?
A competitor to Nike’s fuel band.
Want to take a look inside the human body? As Apple says, “There’s an app for that.” With funding from the National Science Foundation, Green-Eye Visualization has developed Powers of Minus Ten — an interactive tour of the science behind cells and genetics. Get it on iTunes.
Mapping America’s Fast Food Regions
Ours is truly a fast food nation—in America, McDonald’s alone serves 28 million people a day. And while you won’t have any trouble finding some sort of fast food wherever you are, you may have trouble finding your preferred eatery. That’s because fast food is, in many ways, a regional affair—even though you’ll find the Golden Arches from coast to coast, certain chains are more predominant in certain parts of the country. Steve Von Worley’s newly updated Beefspace maps reveal the burger fiefdoms you never knew existed.
Which Conditions Are Connected?
Do you suffer from asthma as well as allergies? Is your insomnia coupled with chronic pain? It turns out that two (or more) is company when it comes to diseases and symptoms. But which conditions are most strongly connected to each other?
This graph shows connections* between conditions reported by members of CureTogether, a free resource for patients to share information about diseases and treatments. Connections are only shown if they are stronger than would be expected by chance based on how common the two conditions are.
Who pays for healthcare, 1960 to 2010
Josh Cothran looked at who’s paid for healthcare over the past five decades, with an animated Marimekko chart.
New model of disease contagion ranks U.S. airports in terms of their spreading influence
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Honolulu are judged likeliest to play a significant role in the growth of a pandemic.
Mapping Type 2 Diabetes Hotspots in London
Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London used Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to create detailed maps with type 2 diabetes data.
The resulting maps highlighted geographical hotspots for type 2 diabetes, and these hotspots revealed fantastic similarities to poverty maps created during the late 19th Century by Charles Booth.
