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How Oklahoma City Inspires Residents to Curb Obesity

By dog | Published: September 2, 2012

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett talks about how his city instituted urban planning initiatives to help curb obesity, and change the habits of Oklahoma City residents. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, atlantic, city, community, convention, election, fl, food, Health, healthcare, issues, journal, national, nutrition, obesity, oklahoma, planning, policy, presidential, public, Reform, republican, rnc, Science, Social, tampa, The, wellness | Comments closed

Doping Debate in Sports: Should Athletes Use Drugs?

By dog | Published: August 26, 2012

Dr. John Gleaves, assistant professor of kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton, discusses the impact of doping and performance enhancement on the human condition. While some argue that doping is damaging, some proponents assert that it is augmenting our ultimate human potential. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged achievement, athletes, athletics, biology, biotech, cheating, culture, debate, doping, drugs, enhancement, francisco, gaming, genetics, performance, san, scandal, Science, sports, swissnex, wellness | Comments closed

America’s CTO Park: Goals of the Health Data Initiative

By dog | Published: August 21, 2012

US Chief Technology Officer Todd Park outlines the three main goals of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Data Initiative. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged biotech, Business, california, club, commonwealth, computing, data, Health, healthcare, insurance, medical, Park, personalized, records, Reform, technology, todd, wellness | Comments closed

Humans Beat Computers to a Breakthrough on AIDS Virus

By dog | Published: August 9, 2012

Seth Cooper, Creative Director of the protein folding game Foldit, explains that humans outperform computers in some pattern recognition tasks, which has helped scientists researching proteins involved in AIDS in monkeys. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged aids, artificial, biology, biotech, breakthrough, computing, cooper, dna, folding, foldit, gamification, intelligence, pattern, problem, protein, recognition, research, Science, seth, solving, summit, technology, virus | Comments closed

Inside Story Americas – Did the US cause Fallujah’s birth defects?

By dog | Published: August 1, 2012

New research is under way on the alarming increase in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, showing elevated levels of radioactivity in the city and across the country. Iraqi doctors have long reported a spike of cases involving severe birth defects in Fallujah since 2004 which are shocking in their severity. So is [...]

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged aljazeera, anomalies, birth, caputi, chemical, congenital, dai, defects, depleted, fallujah, healthcare, insidestoryamericas, iraq, jarrar, military, munition, phosphorus, raed, rattansi, ross, shihab, unconventional, uranium, weapons, White, williams, youtube | Comments closed

Inside Story Americas – Will the fight against HIV/AIDS ever end?

By dog | Published: July 20, 2012

About 30 years ago, it was a considered a death sentence for anyone who caught it. These days more and more people are able to live with HIV/AIDS, thanks to advances in treating the disease. But as medical research pursues alternatives to lifelong treatment, will the fight against HIV/AIDS ever end? Guests: Michael Weinstein, Phill [...]

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged aids, aljazeera, anand, and, conference, david, deeks, hiv/aids, insidestoryamericas, margolis, michael, naidoo, nations, pharmaceuticals, phill, programme, Science, states, Steven, technology, UN, united, weinstein, wilson, youtube | Comments closed

Is Obamacare Really Just a Huge Tax Increase?

By dog | Published: July 1, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Joel Klein, a columnist and senior writer at TIME, and Vin Weber, a prominent and successful strategist in the Republican Party, discuss the Supreme Court’s view that Obamacare is a tax and offer a few predictions on how voters in the presidential election will react to this large [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, aspen, Barack, brooks, Campaign, capitol, care, conference, congress, court, daschle, david, democrat, election, festival, government, Health, healthcare, hill, House, ideas, institute, issues, joel, klein, law, legislation, malveaux, mandate, mitt, obama, obamacare, policy, politics, president, presidential, press, public, Reform, republican, romney, ruling, scotus, Social, supreme, suzanne, tax, tom, US, vin, voter, weber, wellness, White | Comments closed

Obamacare’s Rotten Foundation and Romney’s Secret Plan

By dog | Published: July 1, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, believes the fiscal foundation of Obamacare is ultimately unsustainable and has a few harsh words for Romney’s pathetic inability to talk about his own healthcare plan.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, aspen, Barack, brooks, Campaign, capitol, care, conference, congress, court, daschle, david, democrat, election, festival, fiscal, government, Health, healthcare, hill, House, ideas, institute, issues, joel, klein, law, legislation, malveaux, mandate, mitt, obama, obamacare, policy, politics, president, presidential, press, public, Reform, republican, romney, ruling, scotus, Social, spending, supreme, suzanne, tax, tom, US, vin, voter, weber, wellness, White | Comments closed

Why do markets fall while US waistlines grow?

By dog | Published: June 30, 2012

The US has the highest rate of obesity in the world – with almost a third of the population classified as dangerously overweight. Yet despite more knowledge of the harmful effects of unhealthy eating, America’s waistline keeps growing. The Resident is in NYC – chewing the fat with people on the battle of the bulge. [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged disease, exchange, fast, fat, food, harfenist, Health, lori, markets, New, nyc, obesity, overweightsports, resident, rt, stock, street, US, wall, York | Comments closed

Building Science by Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

By dog | Published: June 28, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Director of Technology for Sage Bionetworks Michael Kellen gives context to the Synapse software, a collaborative IT platform to align experts and enthusiasts. Kellen emphasizes that science is built by people working together.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, bionetworks, bioscience, biotech, biotechnology, collaboration, commons, congress, data, dna, information, it, journals, kellen, michael, Natural, newton, public, research, sage, Science, sciences, scientific, software, technology, wellness | Comments closed

How Obama’s Supreme Court Criticism Could Impact Health Care Decision

By dog | Published: June 26, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, discusses the chilling effect President Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court regarding his signature health care legislation.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, act, affordable, Barack, barnett, capitol, care, center, clause, commerce, consource, constitution, constitutional, court, e, election, Health, healthcare, hill, insurance, jennings, law, legislation, national, obama, peter, policy, Political, politics, Project, public, randy, Reform, Science, sources, supreme, wellness | Comments closed

Clinical Trials Can Miss Obvious Solutions

By dog | Published: June 24, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv James Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, shows the flaws of relying solely on clinical trials for medical treatment because other methods can optimize interventions. In his talk, he discusses the future of collaborative discovery and innovation in medicine.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, bionetworks, bioscience, biotech, biotechnology, care, clinical, collaboration, commons, congress, crowdsourcing, discovery, disease, dna, Health, heywood, innovation, james, Natural, patient, patientslikeme, placebo, research, sage, Science, sciences, trials, wellness | Comments closed

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