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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twice as many children as parents expressed concerns about family members oversharing personal information about them on Facebook and other social media without permission,” says the study's co-author Sarita Schoenebeck. “Many children said they found that content embarrassing and felt frustrated when their parents continued to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schoenebeck is part of a team of researchers at the University of Washington and University of Michigan who surveyed 249 families with children between the ages of 10 and 17 about how families navigate technology limits and expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few rules kids would set for their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Set down your device, or close your screen when I’m talking to you. (The most common request from children.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Moderate your online time. (Go outside and play applies to you, too.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You can’t use the phone at mealtimes, either. (Practice what you preach.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The research suggests that clear and simple rules are the most successful. If parents see that kids won’t disengage from an app or social media site the best solution might be to make it off-limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“If app and device designers were more open to fostering healthy technology habits, they probably would make their current customers happier.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We were surprised to find that when mom and dad say, ‘You can’t be on Instagram,’ it’s easier for kids to accept and stick to that rule than when they say, ‘You can be on Instagram, but you have to put it away at dinner,'” said Hiniker. “As a teenager, I think I would have been happier in a world where I got to be on Instagram at least some of the time, but that really seemed to be a struggle for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, children say it’s easier to follow rules when they’re crafted collectively, as a family, and when parents lived by them as well. So, before you cut your teenager off from Facebook you better be ready to log off too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, our end goal is to give recommendations to product designers to help them understand how people are using their technologies, and how we might design things in the future to make family relationships around technology more harmonious,” says UW lead author Alexis Hiniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Hiniker says the new data about “oversharing” might influence a social media site to design a platform where you can’t post material about someone else without permission. Or an app might add a family-time feature that disables notifications for 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If app and device designers were more open to fostering healthy technology habits, they probably would make their current customers happier,” says UW co-author Julie Kientz. “And they might bring in more families who’ve decided the rule is not to use it at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25633673?dopt=Abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case study\u003c/a> published last year found a shrinking of the president’s vocabulary during his presidency, a condition often linked to dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Nancy Reagan took private conversations and threw them out into the public sphere, and in so doing created a tremendous awareness for Alzheimer’s disease that she then leveraged politically.’\u003ccite>Hans Keirstead, Stem Cell Research Pioneer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After her husband’s diagnosis, Nancy Reagan became an advocate for Alzheimer’s research. In 1995, Mrs. Reagan helped establish the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute, an Alzheimer’s Association affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, years after his illness had forced Ronald Reagan out of public life, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/us/nancy-reagan-in-a-whisper-fights-bush-over-stem-cells.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times called \u003c/a>Nancy Reagan a “stealth lobbyist” against the\u003ca href=\"http://stemcells.nih.gov/policy/pages/2001policy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> sharp restrictions \u003c/a>President George W. Bush had imposed on stem cell research the previous year. These were \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/obama.stem.cells/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturned\u003c/a> by President Obama soon after he took office, a decision Republicans strongly\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-rally-against-obama-on-stem-cells/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> opposed\u003c/a> but drew \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/nancy-reagan-praises-obama-019787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong praise\u003c/a> from Reagan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR earlier this week talked to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/business/moving-stem-cells-front-and-center.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stem cell pioneer\u003c/a> Hans Keirstead about Nancy Reagan’s heterodoxy within the conservative movement when it came to stem cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nancy used the power of her position, you know, unapologetically, very responsibly to not only bring awareness to Alzheimer’s research, but also awareness to the tools that might benefit Alzheimer’s,” Keirstead said. “There was a lot of ignorance about where these cells came from, how they were procured, how they were used. She brought clarity to that by using her position, influencing senators, congressmen, politicians of all sorts as well as the federal government’s funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/03/07/469545335/stem-cell-pioneer-nancy-reagan-brought-alzheimers-into-the-public-sphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen\u003c/a> to the entire interview on NPR, or read the transcript, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>KELLY McEVERS, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Reagan called Alzheimer’s disease a truly long, long goodbye. Her husband, President Ronald Reagan, announced he had the disease in 1994. And at the time, Alzheimer’s wasn’t talked about openly. The former first lady helped change that. Here she is in a C-SPAN interview in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NANCY REAGAN: It is probably the worst disease you can never have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REAGAN: Because you lose contact and you’re not able to share – in our case, you’re not able to share all those wonderful memories that we have. And we had a wonderful life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEVERS: After Nancy Reagan’s death yesterday at the age of 94, she’s being remembered as a powerful advocate for Alzheimer’s research. We’re going to talk about that now with Hans Keirstead. He’s a stem cell research pioneer. And I understand Mrs. Reagan consulted you after her husband’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s. What did she ask you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HANS KEIRSTEAD: That’s correct. Nancy Reagan reached out to me in order to get a deeper understanding of what’s real and what’s false from all of the news that was coming out on stem cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEVERS: Did you know how publicly she was going to talk about Alzheimer’s at that point, or did you think these were, you know, more private conversations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KEIRSTEAD: Nancy Reagan took private conversations and threw them out into the public sphere, and in so doing created a tremendous awareness for Alzheimer’s disease that she then leveraged politically. At that time, Ronald Reagan’s disease was being questioned as to its beginnings. Did it start during his presidency? Did it start afterwards? 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"content": "\u003cp>The Zika virus is certainly worrying. On Feb. 1, the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/emergency-committee-zika-microcephaly/en/\" target=\"_blank\">declared the cluster\u003c/a> of infant brain disorders that health experts strongly suspect is linked to the virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Emergency_of_International_Concern#History\" target=\"_blank\">rare designation\u003c/a> defined by WHO as \"an extraordinary event,\" constituting a transnational public health risk potentially requiring a coordinated international response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last event to receive that designation was the spread of the Ebola virus in 2014. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case-counts.html\" target=\"_blank\">11,000 people in West Africa\u003c/a> died from the disease -- a terrible toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We need to learn to live with some uncertainty. The health risks that surround us can be reduced but never eliminated.'\u003ccite>Stephen Gehlbach,\u003cbr>\nUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., however, the ratio of fatalities (2) to panic (a lot) was off the charts, driven in part by \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/dec/15/2014-lie-year-exaggerations-about-ebola/\" target=\"_blank\">unfounded speculation and erroneous information\u003c/a>. 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Here's a global CDC map showing the current areas of Zika transmission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/03/zikamap.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125990\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125990\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/03/zikamap-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"zikamap\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/03/zikamap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/03/zikamap-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/03/zikamap-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now here's a widget created by Google showing the spread of, not the virus, but searches related to it since October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://googledataorg.cartodb.com/u/googledata/viz/8642706a-dfef-11e5-9f8a-42010a14800b/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n \u003ca href=\"https://googledataorg.cartodb.com/u/googledata/viz/8642706a-dfef-11e5-9f8a-42010a14800b/embed_map\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a full-screen map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not necessarily unexpected or even unwarranted, considering the potential \u003ca href=\"http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-grows-linking-zika-microcephaly-and-other-nerve-syndromes/\" target=\"_blank\">awful effects of the virus \u003c/a>and the lack of a vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, the Ebola hysteria in the U.S. presents us with a cautionary tale, according to Stephen Gehlbach, dean emeritus of the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. \u003ca href=\"http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2016/02/18/threats-of-zika-stephen-gelbach\" target=\"_blank\">Writing for WBUR\u003c/a> in Boston, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Such distressing history should warn that Zika could provoke similar behaviors. How should we react?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By reasoned response. The health concerns are real. But science should supplant our fear, and evidence not emotion be our guide. While we wait for clarity, we need to learn to live with some uncertainty. The health risks that surround us can be reduced but never eliminated. As we learn more about this disease and monitor its spread, rational strategies to minimize risk will emerge.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you're a citizen of the United States, it's useful to note that officials here think widespread transmission in this country is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/26/464459350/big-zika-virus-outbreak-unlikely-in-the-u-s-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\">unlikely\u003c/a>, due to a climate that is mostly inhospitable to the species of mosquitoes spreading the virus, as well as the pervasive use of air conditioning and window screens. (Sexual transmission, however, is of \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/08/who-tells-pregnant-women-not-visit-zika-affected-areas/81481592/\" target=\"_blank\">increasing concern\u003c/a>.) According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">CDC\u003c/a>, there are currently 193 cases of people in the U.S. who acquired the disease while traveling internationally and zero cases of local transmission by mosquito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while countries to our south are getting hard hit by the virus, an increase in microcephaly and other devastating neonatal malformations -- so widely publicized -- has been limited to Brazil and French Polynesia,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/10-march-2016/en/\" target=\"_blank\">current Zika situation report\u003c/a> from WHO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, high tech is on the case. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over at the first annual Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Conference, put on by the University of San Francisco last week, the mice were a'clickin,' the tweets were a'tweetin' and the entrepreneurs were a'pitchin.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stopped by the panel devoted to recent advances in medical technology, where one of the questions was: What trends in health care are truly going to be disruptive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the panelists' \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">answers, which have been edited.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Price transparency is going to be huge over the next decade. More people will want to understand why a hip replacement at one institution costs $25,000 versus $5,000 someplace else. The price convergence of health care and mobile is also going to be powerful -- 95 percent of health care that exists in a facility right now can be delivered at the patient's home, at their workplace, while they're commuting.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> -Connor Landgraf, cofounder \u003ca href=\"https://ekodevices.com/\" target=\"_blank\">EKO Devices\u003c/a>, a digital stethoscope maker\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to see a lot more data collection and a lot more people getting involved in the medical process, and it won't matter if you have a background in medicine or not. That allows us to tap the wisdom of patients who have gone through these issues themselves, and they are far more expert in their condition than the doctors who originally diagnosed them.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> -Jessica Greenwalt, cofounder \u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdmed.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CrowdMed\u003c/a>, a diagnosis-crowdsourcing site\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see a trend in health-tech startups moving toward basing products on actual clinical evidence, which was not the case for a long time. We don't have to reinvent the wheel or create something brand new and crazy and innovative -- you don't need to have an Oculus Rift to do medical care. Sometimes you just take something we know works in the real world and put it online. You find a way to use technology to scale it.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> -Amanda Angelotti, clinical systems designer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.onemedical.com/\" target=\"_blank\">One Medical Group\u003c/a>, membership-based health care\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest trend in digital health is the collection of data by passive devices, plus genomics. These are two areas that are coming together. Clinicians and medical specialists will massage the data to enable precision medicine for the patient. Mixed up in that is social data: What are you drinking? What are you eating? All that's coming together to be personalized.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> -Pronoy Saha, founder, \u003ca href=\"http://healthtechnologyforum.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Technology Forum\u003c/a>, promoting the intersection of health care and technology\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In Lindsey's case, the donor was a woman in her 30s who had previously given birth and consented in advance to donate her organs, the doctors said. Ruth M. Farrell, an obstetrician and gynecologist who was part of the Cleveland Clinic team, said at Monday's news conference that there have been \"some complications\" for live uterus donors.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lindsey, like other uterus recipients, was born without a womb. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/health/uterus-transplant-cleveland-clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Uterus transplant surgery, still experimental, is meant to help women who want to become pregnant but cannot because they were born without a uterus, suffered damage to it or had to have it removed. 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In the U.S., blood samples must be sent to the Centers for Disease Control, and it can take up to three weeks from the onset of infection for the test results to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A faster tool for diagnosis would help public health officials better contain the disease’s spread, identify hot spots for infection, and allow doctors to quickly inform pregnant women if they’ve been exposed to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/charles.chiu\">Dr. Charles Chiu\u003c/a>, a specialist in infectious diseases at UC San Francisco, is testing a new genetic device that he hopes will diagnose Zika, and other mosquito-borne infections like dengue, in under six hours. If the technique proves successful, he hopes to send it to Brazil, ground zero for the virus, by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I interviewed Dr. Chiu on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheraz Sadiq\u003c/strong>: Can you describe this new technology that you’re testing in your lab to see if it can quickly detect the Zika virus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Charles Chiu\u003c/strong>: It’s a technique called nanopore sequencing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nanoporetech.com/\">Oxford Nanopore\u003c/a>, a biotech company from the UK, is the only company that provides it as a commercial product. It’s a portable sequencer a bit larger than a USB stick, which can be powered by a USB connection on a laptop and can perform rapid sequencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108058\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/02/OxfordNanoporeTechnologies_MinION-hand-e1454691575840.jpg\" alt=\"This small portable device may help rapidly diagnose Zika virus infections.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This small portable device may help rapidly diagnose Zika virus infections. \u003ccite>(Oxford Nanopore Technologies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now, we have one specific test for every infectious agent. So there’s now a test for Zika, for malaria, and for dengue. But this new technique allows us to use a single test to detect any bacteria, virus or parasite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re planning on testing Zika virus-positive and Zika virus-negative blood samples in my lab next week. If the tests are promising, we will then deploy the technology to affected countries for use in local clinics and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With our tool, the turnaround time for test results can be under six hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sadiq\u003c/strong>: Did you create this USB-sized sequencing device?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chiu\u003c/strong>: No, but we are implementing and validating the technology for use with clinical specimens, and we are hoping to develop it into a clinical assay, so that you could also do the analysis in the cloud or on your laptop, to rapidly analyze hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences and give you an answer within minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We recently published \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/09/131806/portable-rapid-dna-test-can-detect-ebola-and-other-pathogens\">a study\u003c/a> showing that we can identify Ebola or Chikungunya virus infection within 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to rapidly test and deploy this in other countries. 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