Can Light Affect Your Health?
With light, the body sets its internal clock to a 24-hour cycle regulating an estimated 10 percent of our genes. The workhouse of this system is the light-sensitive hormone melatonin,…
Who Will Drive Social Media Use in Health Care? Part 3
This is the last of a three part series examining how various groups will drive social media use in health care. Part one considered the impact of physicians and
Study Shows Solid Longterm Outcomes with MRgFUS for Uterine Fibroids
A study recently published in the journal Academic Radiology shows positive outcomes up to three years following treatment of uterine fibroids with MR-guided focused ultrasound. In the study, 40 women…
What You Eat Matters More Than the Calories
Conclusion: “There are good foods and bad foods, and the advice should be to eat the good foods more and the bad foods less,” he said. “The notion that it’s…
Is Breath Analysis the Future of Medical Testing?
Scientists are building sophisticated electronic and chemical sniffers that examine the puffs of exhaled air for telltale signs of cancer, tuberculosis, asthma and other maladies, as well as for radiation…
Health Care Buzz Today
Humans Alone in Brain Shrinkage. Human brains shrink as people grow old, unlike even our closest animal relative, says a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Social Media and Telehealth
I'm really pleased to have been invited by Tom Brewer, Program Manager, and the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC) to prepare a social media toolkit for telehealth professionals and networks.…
Stanford Disaster Relief Program – Video
@StanfordHosp just tweeted the link to their YouTube video describing their role in Haiti disaster relief and preparedness for responding to future events. For more information on SEMPER (Stanford Emergency Medicine…
Positive Health and the Heart
For centuries, health providers have focused on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. This time-honored paradigm has generated phenomenal advances in medicine, especially in the last 60 years. It…
Obesity Treatment Alternatives to Reshape Markets
Technologies to tackle the growing problem (and opportunity) of obesity globally have been undervalued as a result of adverse judgments by the FDA and the market against fledgling obesity drugs.…
