Virtual Reality for Your Health
Virtual reality's applications extend beyond gaming; it's revolutionizing healthcare by aiding therapy, calming patients, and enhancing medical training.
Healthcare Students – Data Management Is Important
Preparations for medical school are no joke. In order to simply prepare (and be a competitive candidate) you need a strong academic background in biology and chemistry as well as supplementary courses such as psychology, physics, environmental health, etc. Performing at the top of the class is difficult enough, but there are other considerations to take into account including volunteer hours, independent projects, and MCAT studying. Amidst all of these preparations for medical school you still may have forgotten something. You many not have even considered the growing importance of electronic data management within the healthcare profession. Sure, adding one more thing to your already very full plate may seem…
Maintaining Health in a Polluted Environment
Taking precautions to preserve our health can be a real challenge even on the best of days. High levels of pollutants in the ambient environments can make maintaining a healthy body distinctively more difficult - especially, if like many people you live, work, and exercise in a large city space.
Health Literacy Goes Hand in Hand with Financial Literacy
Finding the time to develop a thorough understanding of our personal finances and gaining a financial literacy is something we all strive for. Having it can provide us with a lifetime of cost savings and financial benefits. Although we take our finances seriously, many of us fail to consider one of the greatest tools in saving ourselves money, time, and a great deal of pain: our health literacy.
Another Great Reason to Give Up Soda
In caring for our health, we always try to make the best decisions for our bodies. For many, this involves making the choice to cut out some of the least healthy food and drink options including those that are high in sugars and high fructose corn syrup. One primary target for both those training for major athletic events and those hoping to simply lose a few pounds is sugary drinks such as soda. And suddenly there are way more reasons to give up soda than just dropping a few pounds. Sugary Drink Risks A recent study from the American Heart Association’s Journal, Circulation, found that the consumption of sugary soda,…
Protecting the Life of Our Waters
Scientists have long been predicting the dangerous impacts of a changing climate. Some of these fears range from extreme weather changes to the submersion of populated cities. These fears become significantly more acute as we focus more heavily upon the impacts a changing climate has on our marine ecosystems.
Addressing Wage Gaps Between Genders
Although there have been many advances in women's equality in the workplace, we are still significantly lacking when it comes to paying women fairly. In 2015, Equal Pay Day - the day in 2015 women had to work until to make the same amount as men did in 1 year - was April 14th.
Becoming Disaster Prepared Using GIS
Did you know that 25 percent of businesses do not reopen after a major natural disaster? Developing a disaster management plan can be the difference between closure and success after such an event.
5 Reasons Libraries Aren’t Dead Yet
With the development of modern technology and nearly everyone using search engines such as Google to find information, it is surprising to walk down the street and find that the local library still remains open to the public for use. We tend to think of libraries solely as a center for books and encyclopedias from which we can spend hours doing research that may only take us minutes online.
How Big of a Threat is Cyber Crime?
When the two words 'crime' and 'technology' are brought up in conversation cybercrime is usually not the thing that comes first to the minds of most people. Rather, many tend to think of crime-solving technology such as DNA analysis and fingerprinting used in solving cases on popular TV murder mysteries and dramas.
