The Abramson Center for the Future of Health

Improving the health of the world one person at a time.

The Abramson Center’s mission is to improve the health of Houston, the United States, and the world by focusing on one of the great health challenges of this century: chronic disease

 In Context Podcast

In Context


  

  

Center, Rice University Receive $1.5 million Grant

The Abramson Center, Rice University, and Technology For All (TFA) have received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant for research in east Houston that will examine ways to provide novel, health-sensing applications using a new generation of low cost wireless networks and mobile computing platforms.

LEARN MORE by listening to a KUHF interview with the Center's Executive Director, Dr. Cliff Dacso: http://kuhf.convio.net/newsaudio/2008/04/080424wirelesshealth.mp3 The interview is also available on the KUHF website: http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=31000


  

  

Recent News

Dacso Medical Devices Interview

The Center's Executive Director, Dr. Cliff Dacso, was interviewed by Houston's public radio station, KUHF, about an FDA conference on medical devices used in people's homes. Dr. Dacso also spoke at the conference. Listen to the interview.

 

New Papers from Center Researchers

Center researchers have recently published several papers. Susan Miller, MD, published "The Ethics of Palliative Care in HIV/TB: Lessons from Tomsk, Siberia." Clifford Dacso, MD, and Kara McArthur, MA, published "Sub-Maximal Decision Theory and Health Resource Conservation," and Yakov Ben-Haim, PhD, and his team have published an article that is based on work done at the International Workshop on Info-Gap Applications in the Life Sciences. Read the papers.

 


  

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