Health + Safety

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Mind-Body Problems

Nutrition Facts, Mark Bittman’s food rating system, colon cancer screening, Time Well Spent, Peter Arno, Flat File

John Thackara|Essays

When Tech In Care Is Evil

I spent the last two weeks in-and-around a care home in England that looks after people with dementia and terminal illness, and their families – including, this time, mine.

Manuela Aguirre|Books

Design for Care

A review of Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience, a new book by Peter H. Jones.

The Editors|New Ideas

Records for Life: Rethinking the Immunization Card

In conjunction with World Immunization Week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation challenged the global health and design communities to reconsider the immunization card, classically one of the principal barriers to vaccination.

John Thackara|Essays

The Dementia Care Economy

A proposition for the economy of ‘disease-modifying therapy’ for dementia.

John Thackara|Essays

Dementia: Care Before Cure

The downside of declaring war on a disease like dementia is to diminish social solidarity. But there are solutions.

Debbie Millman|Insights Per Minute

Debbie Millman on Sleep

Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, strategist and host of the podcast Design Matters.

Thomas Fisher|Insights Per Minute

Thomas Fisher on Survival

Thomas Fisher is dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota.

Nicholas Christakis|Insights Per Minute

Nicholas Christakis on Networks

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity.

Observed|Events