Maybe the most ubiquitous, and slippery, statement about asthma is that it is the primary cause of absence from school. For example: “Asthma is considered the leading cause of school absence among children 5-17. It accounts for an estimated 14 million missed days of school each year.” Asthma absences are considered an important surveillance indicator [...]
Building CAPTCHAs for public health
Over the weekend, I came across a project that teaches a little bit of electrical engineering through CAPTCHAs – the challenge-response test used across the web to determine that a response is not generated by a computer. The open source project, call Resisty, is a WordPress plugin that requires a person visiting a blog determine the [...]
Rural asthma study launching in the Midwest
Novel technology automatically tracks where and when attacks occur February 16, 2010 Next week, Madison-based Reciprocal Sciences, with funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will launch a new study to learn more about the problem of rural asthma in the Midwest. The study follows a recent report by the CDC that [...]
WN@TL presentation – October 21st
On Wednesday, October 21st, David will discussing the development of the Spiroscout on campus at the University of Wisconsin – Madison during the Wednesday Nite @ The Lab series. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Association, WN@TL runs every Wednesday night, 50 times a year. The topics cover the full range of [...]
