Exergaming: Breaking Down the Walls of Social Isolation While Improving Health
If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens, you’d be terribly wrong. That’s how I started a blog post last April examining how senior citizens were improving…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Gene-RADAR Can Test for Viruses in Remote Locations
Nanobiosym is a company that uses physics and medicine to fight disease. Dr. Anita Goel, a physicist and a physician, brought her two areas of expertise together to develop Nanobiosym's…
Best Study and Productivity Apps for Human Physiology and Anatomy Students
With the increased usage of tablets and emergence of smartphones, there has been a large increase in development of educational applications that can help student productivity. To complete my kinesiology…
Forget Calcium Pills, Go for a Calcium-Rich Diet: Supplements Could Increase Heart Attack Risk
Recent studies have presented inconsistent and conflicting information regarding the use of calcium supplements, with some even suggesting they may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have presented…
Turning Health Data into Health Narrative: Interview with Dr. Leslie Saxon on Digital Health
First published on MedCityNews.com. The compelling idea behind digital health isn’t just to deliver health data to patients and doctors. It’s to turn that data into a narrative that reveals some…
Doctors 2.0 & You 2014: From Europe to the World
From Europe to the World: Healthcare Social Media and Mobile Health“Illness happens, but dreams still prevail!” – J.T. Utitus (2014) From Europe to the World: Healthcare Social Media and Mobile…
Herceptin, Breast Cancer Drug, May Cause Heart Troubles for Some Older Women Patients
Herceptin (trastuzumab) was originally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1998 as part of a treatment regimen for women with certain types of breast cancer. Herceptin…
Biometric Tools Edge Into Health Care
(First published on iHealthBeat )The term "biometrics" refers to measuring human characteristics -- a central task of health care since the invention of the science. (First published on iHealthBeat )The term "biometrics" refers to…
Health Reform Beyond the ACA: Are We Inching Towards Consensus?
Most policy people will acknowledge that the Affordable Care Act is only the first step toward reforming our bloated, expensive, inefficient and often unfriendly health care system. Much more will…
