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Via this posting , I learned about a research based on 2.8 million tweets gathered over a period of 48 hours in February. Results showed, for example, that of all messages on Twitter - English accounted for some 50%. - Japanese accounted for 14%. - Portuguese accounted for 9%. - Malay accounted for 6%. - Spanish accounted for 4%. - Italian, Dutch and German each accounted for 1% – 2%.

In the video that I embedded in this posting , Gary Hamel talks about the many changes going on today in many different areas. He touches, for example, upon environmental changes, changes within information technology, and demographic changes. Not least the changes within IT are, I think, worth noticing. The Internet - including social media / collaborative technologies / Web 2.0 tools - as well as mobile devices are not only developing at high speed in these days / weeks / months. They are also, more or less fundamentally, changing the way people work in / across several industries. Think, for example, about the way news is / increasingly will be delivered, and the way education is / increasingly will be done. The changes driven not least by ICT are so profound that a need for breaking the rules has developed. Reflecting upon these as well as other changes that are happening in the world at an increasingly higher speed, I came to think about the paradox between continuous change ...

Via this posting , I came across the following 3½ minute video about 3 elements of good health: 1. Exercise 2. Nutrition 3. Stress reduction I find it valuable that doctors, in this example a doctor from the Mayo Clinic , spends time to teach people about how to prevent illnesses, stay healthy. In this regard, have a look also at the Twitter profile of Dr. Stutz .

Via a Twitter update by Rare Disease Day , I learned about PlayDecide , a discussion game to talk in a simple and effective way about controversial issues. On PlayDecide , there are so-called Decide kits on 11 topics in more than 20 languages. Among the topics is Orphan Drugs. I read in the introduction to the topic Orphan Drugs that, in the European Union, around 30 million people suffer from rare diseases . According to eurordis , a disease or disorder is defined as rare in Europe when it affects less than one person in every 2000 people. One rare disease may affect only a handful of patients in the EU, and another touch as many as 245,000. There are between 6000 and 8000 rare diseases. At PlayDecide , I read further that the case of orphan drugs raises important issues such as - How can you put price limits on human life? - How can treatments for such rare diseases be properly evaluated? - Is it fair that individuals with a rare disease have more money spent on them per unit of h...

In 2 previous postings, here and here , I referred to a couple of hotels located at / on / in the water. Via this posting , I learned about floating offices. To know more, stop by here . Photo source Photo source

Reading this strategy+business article , I learned that drugstores are experimenting with in-store clinics, wellness programs, health screenings, and disease management services. For example, the city of Asheville, North Carolina, has been using local pharmacists to provide free counseling and coaching to diabetes patients, generating substantial savings and health improvement. I discovered that the pharmacy offers 4 significant advantages: Advantage # 1: Trust Patients already have more contact with pharmacists than other health-care providers and appear to greatly value their pharmacists’ advice. Advantage # 2: Access The pharmacist is highly accessible. In ths U.S., for example, there is a pharmacy within 2.36 miles of any consumer. Advantage # 3: Skills and services Pharmacists are highly trained health professionals, knowledgeable about a range of medical conditions and capable of delivering some advisory, diagnostic, and treatment services. An increasing number of pharmacies also...