Mobile Health Could Save developed countries $400 billion by 2017

A PricewaterhouseCoopers report this year estimated that mobile health technology could help save developed countries $400 billion by 2017. About half of American adults have some kind of chronic condition, including obesity, arthritis, or diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wireless devices could let more of their health care happen …

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Network coding on top of Multipath TCP could be used to boost data speeds by 20 times on smartphones and tablets

Right now, as any smartphone owner knows, a phone or tablet will either use Wi-Fi or 4G or 3G—and never at the same time. So your streaming video may cut out because the network you were using dropped, even though there’s another signal available. Multipath TCP could change this by divvying up those video bits …

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North Dakota oil production could nearly double again from 875000 barrels per day in July to 1.55 million barrels per day in 2015

Current projections for North Dakota oil production is to achieve about 1.55 million barrels per day in 2015. The latest North Dakota production is at 874681 barrels per day. This is roughly in line with a Harvard forecast where oil booms in North Dakota and Texas. Maugeri, author of a 2012 report forecasting rapid growth …

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Several gene therapies are or will soon be in late-stage human trials

Though many gene therapies have been tested in patients around the world in hopes of curing hereditary diseases, few governments have approved their sale, and none has been approved in the United States. That could change in coming years as several therapies enter advanced trials. Experts say it is likely to be a few years …

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