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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.…
Vermont’s Bold Experiment: A Rebuttal
As commented on The Health Care BlogVermont's Bold Experiment As commented on The Health Care BlogVermont's Bold Experiment Hsaio 1989 Hsaio 2010 Harvard Professor William Hsiao is fond of the…
A Garden of HealthCare Phone Apps – Watch it Grow
With thousands of smart phone apps related to health, few can doubt a continued growth in this market. After living with months of uncertainty about how the Food…
Impact of NCDs on Emerging Economies – Focus on India
Just how much of a threat are non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to emerging economies? Take India, a country where economic change is both endangered by chronic diseases and is also, paradoxically,…
Rural Health White Paper Released by UnitedHealth Group Think Tank
The UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization released a white paper today on Modernizing Rural Health Care. To quote from the UHG presser, The UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform…
