Blood Cancer Awareness Month: Awareness Alone Is Not Enough
This month (September) is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. It’s pretty personal for me since I have lived with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) since 1996. When I was diagnosed it was…
Protecting Seniors From the West Nile Virus
This year marks the country’s worse West Nile virus outbreak since 1999. The CDC is now reporting over 1,993 nationwide across 38 states, including 87 deaths. This year marks the…
Prostate Cancer Awareness: Detection and Treatment
Stanley M. Redwood, M.D. FACS Stanley M. Redwood, M.D. FACSProstate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer in American men. According to the American Cancer Society, “About 1…
Mitchell Poll Reveals that Boomers will Purchase Health Care Apps
How important is social media to mobile health apps? Very, according to Mitchell Research, a national polling company based in East Lansing, Michigan. Susie Mitchell is founder of MitchellPR…
Demanding More From Medical Homes
Published 9/4/12 in Medical Home News Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin Published 9/4/12 in Medical Home News Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin A reporter called the other day to tell me…
Are Your Hospital’s Physicians’ Using “Doctor-Only” Social Networks?
Did you know that one of the leading causes of death in America is medical mistakes or accidents, including those performed by doctors? And those medical mistakes are the results…
How Sweet It Is: Smartphone App and Glucometer Mashup
“How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)” was a mid-60s Motown sound hit. First recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1965, and later by James Taylor, it became one…
New Tools of the Trade to Use in Your HealthCare Organization
There's a time and a place for new media.Years ago, healthcare communications and marketing channels were pretty straightforward. There's a time and a place for new media.Years ago, healthcare communications…
Ethiopia’s AIDS Spending Cliff
This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. This is a joint post with Kate McQueston.There’s an AIDS spending cliff in Ethiopia and the government is already in free fall.…
Understanding Physician Shortages Means Asking the Right Questions
Uwe E. Reinhardt, an economics professor at Princeton, responded to a July 28, 2012, New York Times article, “Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen with Health Law,” by questioning what exactly…
