Blown To Bits

Who Is Sick?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by Harry Lewis
This cheap buy without prescription is because liver disease may increase the risk of a buy cheap zofran high blood potassium level and other side effects from Yaz. order synthroid Doctors typically won't prescribe Yaz for people with specific factors estrace sale that increase the risk of blood clots. This could lead buy glucophage without prescription to a higher level of the TCA in your body, buy asacol pills increasing your risk of its side effects. If your doctor nasonex sale prescribes Yaz with St. John's wort, be sure to tell buy cheap allopurinol internet them if you have breakthrough bleeding. YAZ INTERACTION WITH CANNABIS buy cheapest cheap online OR CBDCannabis (often called marijuana) and cannabis products, such as purchase glyburide online cannabidiol (CBD), have been specifically reported to interact with Yaz. amoxicillin online You should always consult your doctor or another healthcare professional before.

That’s the name of a “crowdsourcing” Web site, whoissick.org. It’s a work in progress, so slow, but go try it. You type in a zip code and you find out the symptoms of people in your neighborhood. And the data comes from you too; you submit your observations of your own symptoms, or those of someone you know. Weird. The origin tale is peculiar too — the site’s creator waited with his sick wife for four hours in an emergency room, only to be told that she had the same symptoms as lots of other people in the area. He wouldn’t have bothered if he knew what was going around.

The site illustrates two developing trends. The ease with which mashups can be thrown together (including this one, from the Huffington Post site, with wonderful depictions of your neighbors’ political allegiances, drawn from public databases). And the ease with which we can now try to channel large numbers of voluntary, amateur observations into widely useful knowledge.

Comments are closed.