[Ed. note: Tune in to the livestream Monday at 9:30 a.m. ET] Can the inventors of Watson help save sick children in the developing world? A “cloud-based” pediatric learning module, conceived by Children’s Hospital Boston and built by IBM Interactive, is being beta-tested this year in 20 countries. Provisionally called Pediatrics without Walls, it will [...]
There are no best practices for turning patient’s genome sequence into information that a doctor can easily understand…and act on. Children’s Hospital Boston’s CLARITY Challenge calls on the genomics community to come up with those practices, and possibly help three families in the process. (michab37/Flickr) Personalized medicine, harnessing genomics to improve patient care, is a [...]
(Karl-Ludwig Poggemann/Wikimedia Commons) Recently, in the hospital cafeteria, I overheard a group of researchers discussing the upcoming availability of whole-genome sequencing to physicians. “We should devise a way to study how physicians will use this,” said one of them—underscoring the disruptive nature of the transformation that is currently happening in medicine. The ability to immediately [...]
Brian Rosman holds up a tablet app he and a team of Children's and MIT Media Lab staff developed over the past two weeks during the Health and Wellness Hackathon At 10 a.m. he’s directing two actors on set, at 10:34 a.m. he’s filling up a catheter and at 11:01 a.m. he’s gushing about the [...]
It’s important to examine as many sources of information as possible on any given issue. The Northern Gateway Pipeline is promising to be one of thew most controversial issues the country of Canada may face in a generation. For the Social Studies practitioner the pipeline issue has many facets – local, provincial, national and global. [...]
(Lars Plougmann/Flickr) Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall, while completing hospital paperwork and packing your bags. You’re finally out the door, in your car, kids strapped in and [...]
Personalized 2012 Calendar, MacGyver, age 8 Better late than never! You’ll see that motto over and over again here at waddlee-ah-chaa because we’re just too darn busy to keep up with life. We began 2012 by planning our father’s BIG 80th Birthday Party. Now we are playing catch-up. We are finally posting our FREE printable [...]
I took my training to be an academic language therapist through an Orton-Gillingham school. We were NOT to teach this rule. The purpose of rules is to make spelling easier for students. Something that is reliable only about 50% of the time does not make things easier. O-G teaches very few rules, only 5. With [...]
Hi everyone, Sorry to write about such an un-fun topic but I’m preparing to do my taxes and want to know what things I can write off? I did a google search as well as searched this forum’s history but couldn’t find anything consistent & credible enough that I felt comfortable using them. Any help [...]
Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: “It’s Easy Being Green” Book Bag The Big leaf Pile (Clifford the Big Red Dog) The Empereor and the Kite by Jane Yolen, Illustrated by Ed Young The Umbrella by Jane Brett Whales by Seymour Simon Today my three grown children are avid readers who read for enjoyment. I know [...]