Understanding Depression And How Social Networking Communities Can Help
Feeling down from time to time is a normal part of life. But when emptiness and despair take hold and won’t go away, it may be depression. When you’re depressed,…
Medical Innovations for the Real World: The Universal Anesthesia Machine
Medical Innovations for the Real World – the Universal Anesthesia MachineWhat happens when you take a $75,000 anesthesia machine from a hospital in the developed world and drop it…
What Causes Inflammation? Comprehensive Look At The Causes and Effects of Inflammation
I (Dov Michaeli here) recently came across a great article in the PEERtrainer website, explaining what inflammation is all about, and what can be done about it. I especially liked the road-accident metaphor.…
Apps for Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention
The Office for the National Coordinator recently announced the winners of their "One in a Million Hearts Challenge," which invited developers to create software applications aimed at promoting heart health. The…
Advances Coming in Medical Science That Will Have a High Impact
There are a series of medical megatrends outlined in my book The Future of Medicine – Megatrends in Healthcare that will profoundly affect health care in the coming five to…
Mental Health Social Sites
Ten social sites that are making a positive impact on mental health patients and their loved ones. Ten social sites that are making a positive impact on mental health patients…
PCI Report on Compliance
If your company collects, transmits, stores or processes credit cardholder data, you will need to create a PCI DSS Report on Compliance at least annually for on-site assessments or self-reporting…
Texas Hospital Won’t Hire Employees With BMI Higher Than 35
This one of those bizarre stories and the legality of it appears to be all over the place as if you read further with one legal interpretation that says if…
What Healthcare Marketers Need To Know About Pinterest’s Revised Terms of Service
EXCLUSIVE POST - The potential for heathcare social media marketing to leverage Pinterest, the latest networking site to take the social media world by storm, is already evident; but what is less…
Riding the Road to Recovery – benefits of exercise during cancer treatment
I was intrigued when David contacted me about a guest post on the topic of remaining fit during treatment for cancer. I recently read Ruth Levine’s compelling book, Cancer…
