Health App: The iPhone Can Take Your Temperature
The average person's temperature is about 98 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. Of course, people's temperatures can go up a lot when they are sick. You need to pay…
The HealthCare Social Media Review – 28th Edition – Connectivity
What does social media really do? Connect us all! With social media channels, geographic location is less and less important. For healthcare, this connectivity opens whole new avenues. Patients can…
Doctors 2.0 & You: Interview with @pharmaguy
John Mack - the guy with the colorful shirt – and Pharma Marketing News have been supporters of Doctors 2.0 & You from the beginning. John won’t be with us at…
ALS Community and Innovation in Medicine
It sometimes feels strange to me that I am so interested in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). I have no personal connection to this fatal motor neuron disorder. The only association…
Reducing Readmissions: Care About Your Care
The RWJF is working to bring some attention to improving transitions from the hospital to home environments and reducing readmissions with the Care About Your Care effort. The RWJF is…
ALS Community and Innovation in Medicine
It sometimes feels strange to me that I am so interested in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). I have no personal connection to this fatal motor neuron disorder. The only association…
ZocDoc High School HealthCare Essay Contest
Earlier this year, ZocDoc, the popular website dedicated to improving access to healthcare, offered high school students the chance to win a grand prize scholarship of $6,000 to the accredited…
Chat 126: Can Social Media Be Used to Influence Healthy Behaviours and Track Diseases?
By Fanny Gillet and edited by Colleen YoungNicole Ghanie-Opondo By Fanny Gillet and edited by Colleen YoungNicole Ghanie-OpondoOn Wednesday May 1st, Nicole Ghanie-Opondo (@todayisbanana) moderated our tweetchat and asked the community how social media can serve…
Health Tap New Resource for Health Information
I came across a new resource called HealthTap. Essentially you can submit questions to a physician via mobile and receive vetted, peer-reviewed health information back. All doctors on HealthTap…
Parkinson’s Disease: 12 Surprising Facts You Didn’t Know
Parkinson’s (also known as idiopathic parkinsonism, hypokinetic rigid syndrome/HRS, or paralysis agitans) was first discovered in 1817 by British doctor James Parkinson, and brought into public attention in the modern times by…
