Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Submission + - The First Prescription-Only App (ieee.org)

TWToxicity writes: Most prescriptions would say something like "take two pills nightly with meal" on the bottle. Now, this could all change. Baltimore-based company WellDoc is making a national push in 2014 for doctors to prescribe their app, BlueStar, after a regional launch last Fall. BlueStar helps patients with Type II Diabetes by suggesting in real-time when to test and how to regulate their blood-sugar levels by, for example, altering their medication or food intake.
Prescription apps may revolutionize mobile medicine and allow for more effective treatments because the patients get real time feedback and the data collected by the app is sent to their physicians.
WellDoc is currently working on apps to monitor and coach patients with other diseases. The success of this product will rely on how many doctors prescribe it.

Submission + - Cheerios to Go GMO-Free

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: ABC News reports that General Mills has ended the use of genetically modified ingredients in Cheerios, its flagship breakfast food and has been manufacturing its original-flavor Cheerios without GMOs for the past several weeks in response to consumer demand. Original Cheerios will now be labeled as "Not Made With Genetically Modified Ingredients," although that it is not an official certification. "We were able to do this with original Cheerios because the main ingredients are oats," says Mike Siemienas, noting that there are no genetically modified oats. The company is primarily switching the cornstarch and sugar to make the original Cheerios free of GMOs. Green America has been targeting Cheerios for the past year to raise the profile of the anti-GMO movement. "This is a big deal," says Green America's Todd Larsen. "Cheerios is an iconic brand and one of the leading breakfast cereals in the US. We don't know of any other example of such a major brand of packaged food, eaten by so many Americans, going from being GMO to non-GMO." For its part General Mills says that it was never about pressure. "It’s not about safety. Biotech seeds, also known as genetically modified seeds, have been approved by global food safety agencies and widely used by farmers in global food crops for almost 20 years," writes GM Spokesman Tom Forsythe. "Cheerios isn’t changing. It’s still the One and Only."
NASA

Submission + - NuStar to Launch on Wednesday from Plane (nasa.gov)

TWToxicity writes: "NuSTAR, which stands for Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray, is set to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT).

NuSTAR is to be launched from a Pegasus XL rocket carried by an Orbital Science Corp. L-1011 "Stargazer" plane. It will orbit at 550 km above Earth's surface. A week after launch, NuSTAR will deploy its 10 meter boom , which allows the telescope to focus X-rays and capture images that will help scientists survey black holes in other galaxies, study the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and study supernovae to discover hoe atomic elements are formed."

The 2000 Beanies

Submission + - Committee lowers Nobel Prize. (thelocal.se)

Snirt writes: "The Nobel Committee has chosen to lower this year's Nobel prize winnings by two million kronor ($283,030) due to turbulence in the current economic climate.

The prize now stands at 8 million kronor, down from the 10 million of 2011. “The reason behind this decision is that the financial markets are really unstable and there are reasons to suspect that this turbulence will continue for a while still,” said Lars Heikensten, head of the Nobel Committee, to the TT news agency. “Long term, we aim to raise the figure, even though we think that the Nobel Prize’s value should lie in the prize itself and not the prize money,” he said. While Heikensten admits that it was a “tough decision” to cut the prize money, he told the news agency that it’s not the first time the prize sum has been altered, adding that it has been lowered and raised several times over the past few years."

Comment Make GSM the Standard (Score 1) 479

Nokia and the Symbian OS has always sold well outside the United States, because everywhere but the United States GSM is the standard, and that is Nokia's specialty. Nokia still sells relatively well outside the US, but it still losing to the Android (BIG TIME). I like my Nokia E71x, but I want an Android, however, I'm on the ATT network and switching is more of a hassle, unless GSM becomes the standard. I have messed around with both an Android and a Windows Phone 7, I give the upper hand to the Android platform, although Windows Phone 7 is great in its own right, I would buy a Nokia Windows Phone 7 phone, because of my brand loyalty (to Nokia and Windows).

Slashdot Top Deals

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule." -- David Guaspari

Working...