Cell phones are being used as medical instruments in underdeveloped nations, extending highly cost-effective health care to underserved villages and rural areas. A team led by Daniel Fletcher, a Bioengineering Professor at the University of California at Berkeley has developed inexpensive conversions of cell phones into medical instruments, using clip-on lenses that cost one dollar or less. Fletcher's team has on-the-ground tests in Cameroon screening for parasitic worm infections and in Thailand screening for retinal diseases. "By attaching a simple set of lenses to a Nokia phone borrowed from my sister," wrote Fletcher, "we were able to image blood cells,……
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Obesity Decreases in Early Childhood but Remains National Threat
The Huffington Post published senior fellow Dan Glickman's article, "Obesity Decreases in Early Childhood but Remains National Threat"…….
Farm policy, nutrition go together
The Hill: Senior Fellow Dan Glickman and Ann Veneman discuss the role of food and farm policy in the nation's health and obesity crisis…….
NEAL BAER: EMPOWERING HEALTH AND SOCIETY THROUGH STORYTELLING
Fast Company: Senior fellow Neal Baer "helped pioneer the partnership between medicine, entertainment, health education, and social policy–using storytelling as the vehicle to inform."……
Westphal – SacBee “Boomers and Medicare”
Senior Fellow David Westphal currently heads the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, and recently released a report on the rising demands of healthcare professionals and medicare payouts as the first generation of "baby boomers" turns 65 years old this year. Westphal told the Sacramento Bee that "[a]s citizens we all have work to do in deciding what government can afford to do – and not do – in subsidizing seniors' health care." [additional article can be found at SecondAct]……
Baer in Variety – Venice Family Clinic
Senior Fellow Neal Baer has been elected as a board member of the Venice Family Clinic, according to Variety…….
Westphal in LA Observed
Senior Fellow David Westphal and the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting at USC Annenberg was profiled on the LA Observed blog. Westphal said that the project has "demonstrated one point clearly: that a news organization supported by a foundation (the California HealthCare Foundation) and affiliated with a university journalism school (USC Annenberg) can partner with local news organizations to produce difference-making journalism."……