Now, Wash your Hands…

Stay at home, wash your hands: epidemic dynamics with awareness of infection

This paper describes work in progress studying a cellular au-tomata model of epidemic dynamics on a spatial network. We assume that susceptible individuals become aware of the presence of infection within their local neighborhood, and change their behavior so as to reduce the risk of becoming infected. Two controls are considered: reducing the number of contacts (" staying at home "), and reduc...

Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

search Institute, Director of Scripps Translational Science Institute, and a cardiologist. He is considered a pioneer in the area of cardiovascular medicine and a futurist. In 2013, he wrote the book The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, which touched on genomics and digital technology for future medicine. In this book he continued to d...

Hot cells, raise your hands.

Obesity is a commonly used predictor for many metabolic diseases and is closely linked to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Essentially a disorder of energy balance, obesity occurs when energy intake and storage exceed expenditure. Much of the energy homeostasis depends on the activity and function of adipose tissue. White adipose tissue (WAT) primarily functions to store energy and ...

Why don't doctors and nurses wash their hands?

For almost 150 years healthcare workers have been taught that cross-infections are transmissible but not contagious and that the most effective way to prevent these cross-infections is to wash their hands before and after every patient contact. But, they don't do it. They don't merely not do it every time, they don't do it most of the time and sometimes not even when it might be most expected, ...

The future is in your hands.