Protecting Your Body From Pathogens: How to Boost Your Immune System
As interesting and intricate as the human immune system is, it can also seem scary because of all the risks your body is susceptible to daily. After all, it's working…
Regulate Supplements
Supplements:Imagine the world before 1906 when you could go into a store and buy any drug without a doctor's direction or prescription. One of the more popular items was snake…
Natural Therapies Lead the Way in Health
This is a reprint of an article first published by HealthPost at www.healthpost.co.nz Natural therapies have a vital part to play in an integrated, holistic approach to health and…
Not So Superfoods
If certain celebrities (here’s lookin’ at you, Gwyneth) and that cute clerk at the co-op are to be believed, then some foods are absolutely, unequivocally capital-G-good for you. However, some…
Lyme Disease Even Scarier? Maybe
Black-legged (Deer) Tick(Photo: National Pest Management Association) Black-legged (Deer) Tick(Photo: National Pest Management Association)The height of tick season generally brings a spate of scary stories about Lyme disease and other…
People May Adopt the Diet and Exercise Patterns of the Least Fit in their Peer Group
Who you follow makes a difference.The decline in the physical fitness of the U.S. population has been increasingly in the news. Nearly two-thirds of adults are currently overweight, while more…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Choosing the Right Primary Care Doctor
I have moved a number of times in the past few years, and with each new city comes new doctors. Some of these doctors have been wonderful and others have…
How Far Has Health Information Exchange Progressed (Or Has It)?
The Indiana Health Information Exchange has what is most probably the longest track record in H.I.E. If time is of the essence for a product or service to mature, the…
Patient Commando Features Canadian Women Changing Healthcare
Patient Commando launched Canadian Women Changing Healthcare. It's their contribution to XX in Health Week 2013, an initiative meant to focus attention on the lack of female representation at healthcare’s…
Business Intelligence and Health Analytics for the Rest of Us
Business intelligence and clinical analytics (especially pred Business intelligence and clinical analytics (especially predictive analytics) are hot topics in hospital and clinic executive suites these days. And yes, I know…
