A study just released by UCLA Public Health reports that Asian and Latino immigrants in California are not getting cancer screening tests at the same rate as whites and African Americans. The differences — attributed to cultural, education, language and other barriers — occur even when comparing people with similar income levels or health insurance status across racial and ethnic ...

Wired News: Care-Giver Tech Slowly Evolves As someone with very elderly in-laws, I’d estimate that this is going to be very singnficant. You really want remote monitoring. All I can say is that it’s got to be goof-proof. A significant part of this will probably be cancer patients. What do you think can be done for them by telemetry and ...

Big Blue evidently has built a demonstration grid system focusing on breast cancer.

I think the so-called “outsourcing” flap is beginning to take the right perspective: it’s about the future of the global economy, not just economic recovery. Here’s an article saying that IT outsourcers are looking at Eastern European countries because “India’s getting more expensive.” Whaa?!