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On Community Mobilization I talk more about the WSJ article on hiring managers, university enrollment officers, and maybe even Homeland Security people prying into the social networking sites to draw additional information about candidates for jobs, admission etc.   We forget that what we put into the public space is public and can be searchable alter on by just about anyone.  ...

Here I was, predicting indefinite life extension the other day, and now a futurist newsletter has a more pessimistic view: we may be eating ourselves to death. Pigging-out may more that offset the gains in longevity from medical progress. True, people won’t live for millennia if they self-destruct. From Futurist Update: The dramatic rise in obesity is the primary catalyst–obesity ...

From Health-IT World: Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, M.D., last week signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information network and establish an academic research partnership that boosters say could become a foundation for national healthcare reform. The signing caps a four-year effort by Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, M.D., an otolaryngologist from the Appalachian town of Hazard, Ky., who is the ...

From TRN: Researchers from the University of Manchester in England have devised a method that delivers human cells unharmed to chosen locations within polymer scaffolds. "The scaffold is… built from a material designed to degrade in the body and be absorbed over a timescale of months," said Brian Derby, a professor of materials science at the University of Manchester. "While ...