Wednesday, October 28. 2009

HuffPost on Bill Davenhall's TED MED Presentation

Alana B. Elias Kornfeld was at TED MED which started yesterday in San Diego. She gave ESRI's Health and Human Services Solutions Manager Bill Davenhall high praise for his presentation on the importance of geography in preventing, managing and understanding disease.

But the most compelling and immediately applicable information came from Bill Davenhall, .... Davenhall spoke about the missing piece to understanding personal health: the environment. He said the basic formula for good health is:
Genetics + lifestyle + environment = risks

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Tuesday, October 20. 2009

New Spatial Epidemiology Journal

Elsevier launched a new peer-reviewed scientific journal in September called Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology . It's a "forum for academics and scholars in the growing fields of graphical information systems [sic], epidemiology, exposure science, and spatial statistics."

- The Medical News

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Spatial Thinking Decline May be Early Indicator of Alzheimers

Researchers from the University of Kansas published an article in the Archives of Neurology that suggests that “visuospatial” problems (trouble reading maps or building jigsaw puzzles) tend to appear about two or three years before memory loss. The study involved 444 people over the course of an average of six years; 134 developed Alzheimer’s.

- Telegraph

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