A company called LowestMed has launched a mobile app that allows consumers to compare drug prices at their local pharmacy chains.
The app will be a mobile extension of the company's Web resource for comparative drug prices and prescription discount cards.
- eWeek
Waze launched version 3.0 for Android. "The latest iteration of the app features a complete overhaul from the ground up, including a new minimalist graphic interface as well as Foursquare and Yelp POI integration to make it the most powerful local search navigation system on the market."
- press release
RunKeeper has nine new partners using its API, bringing the total to 45. New ones include:
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Fleetly: Lets users track and improve their Fitness Level in a social game.
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Pedometer Ultimate: Turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful GPS stopwatch.
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Nexercise: An interactive game that makes fitness fun.
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CleverRun: Predicts your target time for your next race and compares your runs to runs of the same distance.
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Cycle Log: Helps cyclists track performance with GPS mapping, interval timers, voice cues and more.
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Coachya: Helps coaches provide training plans, track, manage and bill their teams and athletes.
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Vitogo: Lets you log your strength training with coaching, motivation and social support.
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Weighty: Allows you to submit your weight and fat percentage to the Health Graph.
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Scosche myTREK: A wireless pulse monitor that is worn on your forearm and lets you manage your pulse, training type, calories burned, distance/speed/pace and more.
(I don't use RunKeeper or any phone based workout app. I just use my old Garmin Forerunner 201. It's the one Kate M. gave me after I lost my first one.)
- Bostoninno
Safely, the family safety app suite from Location Labs is announcing it "has enabled more than one billion family safety location checks since inception." And, there's a new feature: a check-in feature for the kids - so they don't have to call to say where they are.
- press release
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"This study points out the potential effects of traffic-related air pollution on respiratory health status, including lung function impairment." If you live closer to a road, the self reported study found, you are more likely to suffer respiratory illness.
- press release; the study appeared in Environmental Health
Check out an "interview with Daniel Dougherty ’12, a History and Geography major, discussing his use of GIS for an analysis of the impact of climate change on sleeping sickness. The research project was conducted as part of Prof. Duane Griffin’s Geography 204 course Applied GIS. In the interview, Dougherty describes the data and methodology he used for the project and talks about some of the conclusions he drew from his analysis."
- GIS at Bucknell Blog
A study of dementia diagnosis in UK produced by The Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer's Scotland with the help of the supermarket chain Tesco. Researchers predict that more than a million people will suffer from dementia by 2021. But there are significant disparities:
The map shows that Dorset has the lowest rates of diagnosis, with just 26% knowing they suffer from dementia.
But at the other end of the spectrum, in Belfast that figure rises to 69%.
- BBC
I'd never heard of the Map of Medicine, a product of Hearst until it got a new boss this week (press release). The product includes a series of maps that guide medical intervention and communication best I can tell. "Map of Medicine care maps are your ideal starting point for defining and communicating services to improve quality and productivity." They are basically flow charts.
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Google announced new datasets including demographics, parcels, traffic counts in its for fee Google Earth Pro this month. Why? What market is the company looking capture? Are those data enough? And, do they belong in Google Earth Pro? Our editors explore the new additions.
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