Category: Health & Medical

Originally published in The Engineering Ethics blog, August 6, 2018.  In a recent New York Times opinion piece, science journalist Melinda Wenner…  Read More

The Wall Street Journal points out that China has collected 54 million DNA records, and the U.S. FBI holds 13…  Read More

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Facebook Concedes to Effects on Health.” The social media health impact acknowledged is related…  Read More

November 2, 2017 Sydney, Australia

The conversation about “Web Science” is becoming more urgent and more central to the future of the planet and the way we live a life worth living.

Graeme Clark is the inventor of the cochlear implant. He was the dinner Keynote Speaker at the 2016 Conference on…  Read More

Many stroke survivors retain some degree of paralysis and thus have limited use of their body. According to published surveys,…  Read More

Within the next decade, reactive medical practices will evolve into what has been popularly coined “P4” medicine — predictive, preventive,…  Read More

Once or twice a year, I receive a call or email from someone claiming to be under intensive targeted surveillance…  Read More

What can parents do? Children need different rules at different ages of development. Here are some 3-6-9-12 Rules for the…  Read More

The United States military has a long tradition of driving technological innovation and the field of neurotechnology is no exception….  Read More

Dear Editor, After receiving my discharge from the United States Marine Corps, the most deplorable fight of my life/career started….  Read More

Meteoric progress in sensor, computer, and telecommunication technology has catapulted healthcare into the realm of pharmaco-electronic medicine, where increasingly we…  Read More

Depression is a chronic mental illness affecting millions across the globe. Physical activities and sleep are some of the key…  Read More

Rehabilitation for chronic conditions resulting from acute or progressive disease might be delivered in an outpatient facility as in the…  Read More

When I was 8 years of age my older sister who was 8 years my senior was diagnosed with paranoid…  Read More

When Fantasy Turns into Obsession Craig is a banker from Iowa who became addicted to adult chat rooms. He explained,…  Read More

  Civil commitment (i.e., civil involuntary hospitalization and treatment) is sometimes necessary to treat some psychiatric patients, especially those believed…  Read More

This new book, Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive Technology, points to a challenge that may be hitting a tipping point:…  Read More

It should be noted that an early, if not first, instance of an online physical attack on a person has…  Read More