Polio: Eradikation in greifbarer Nähe

It’s been really quite on our blog lately, but we are ramping it up again and will bring you some fine information from the forefront of medicine and healthcare. This is an infgraphic created by XEROX® for the TEDMED event series. Here’s the full infographic:

Daniel Kraft delivered a talk at the Pioneers Festival in which he shares some of his views and insights into Hacking the Human Body and what he foresaw could be the Future of Medicine.  After his incredibly inspiring talk we were able to catch up with Daniel to conduct an interview. The first part of our interview with Dr. Kraft is available here. Part 2 of the interview with Daniel begins with a surprise appearance from Peter Vesterbacka (Mighty Eagle) of Rovio, the creators of  the phenomenally popular Angry Birds game. Our interview segued into ideas from  highlighting the potential use of Angry Birds for persuasive health scenarios, with Peter Vesterbacka confirming that Rovio was engaging in using games for education. TRANSCRIPT SUMMARY: Peter Vesterbacka:  (Walks into our interview and greets Daniel and myself) “Hej! It’s been a while” (Peter stands next to us and smiles ) MedCrunch:  [Peter] we are making an interview, but it is ok  [for you] to interrupt. Daniel Kraft:  [Peter] can zoom right on in.  [….] Here is an excuse to ask a crazy question; (referring to Peter Vesterbacka), a lot of people [play] Angry Birds and are addicted, would it be neat if you had to do your workout [or other health related activity] until you were […]