Xerox Designs System to Reduce Busywork for Nurses
The system automatically pulls up patient files and lets nurses use mobile devices to document work.
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Susan Young
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I’m the biomedicine editor for MIT Technology Review. I look for stories where technology stands to improve human health or advance our understanding of the human condition.
I joined MIT Technology Review in March 2012 after a brief stint in the Washington, D.C., news bureau of the scientific journal Nature. Before I ventured to the East Coast, I spent several years in the San Francisco Bay Area as a doctoral student in molecular biology and one whirlwind year in science-writing boot camp in Santa Cruz.
In California, I wrote for the Stanford University press offices, the Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum, and the Salinas Californian newspaper. I grew up in a small town in eastern Texas, surrounded by bird song, rolling cattle fields, and lanky pine trees. When I’m not exploring health tech, you will probably find me cooking or giggling over an exceptional LOLcat.
Susan Young's Stories
Type
Organ-on-a-Chip Mimics Deadly Lung Condition
The organ-mimicking microdevice may one day reduce the need for animal testing.
Breakthrough Offers a Better Way to Make Drugs
An MIT-Novartis collaboration could be a boost for so-called “continuous flow” manufacturing.
Yahoo Japan to Sell Genetic Test
The Internet company will market a test for disease-associated DNA variants.
Pakistan Uses Smartphone Data to Head Off Dengue Outbreak
Algorithms tell government workers where to seek out the telltale mosquito larvae that causes the disease.
EmTech: The Future of Cancer Treatment
Cocktails of targeted cancer therapies could push survival beyond just months of additional life.
Connectome
A fast, cheap way to identify neuron-to-neuron connections could shed light on disorders including autism and schizophrenia.
Genetically Modified Mice Could Be Tiny Landmine-Sniffing Heroes
Researchers have created mice that are 500 times more sensitive than usual to TNT. They could provide a cheap, fast way to find buried explosives.
Stem Cells Reveal Defect in Parkinson's Cells
The nuclei of brain stem cells in some Parkinson's patients become misshapen with age. The discovery opens up new ways to target the disease.
How a Vision Prosthetic Could Bypass the Visual System
Electrical stimulation of the visual cortex may one day give image perception to blind people.
