How to Handle Criticism When You’re a Caregiver
In many caregiving situations, the primary responsibility falls to one person — typically an adult child and more often a daughter. In many caregiving situations, the primary responsibility falls to…
Taste Buds: In Your Tongue and Gut
Taste buds in your guts? Yes. And cats…they can’t taste sweet. Taste buds are not just found in the tongue, but throughout the entire GI tract, and even the lung!…
Harmful Drug Reactions Get Help from Automated Follow-Ups
According to a new study performed in Canada, automated phone systems that send patients repeated reminders can help spot harmful drug reactions. According to a new study performed in Canada,…
Oral Health Concerns For Vegetarians
Vegetarian - a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, chicken. Vegan- no food derived from animals, such as eggs or cheese, but instead eats vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc. Vegetarian - a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, chicken. Vegan- no food derived from animals, such as eggs or cheese, but instead eats vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.Many people in society today have chosen…
Putting the Brakes on Health Care Costs
Spent so much time today dealing with Blue Cross’s ill-conceived mandatory drug mail order program that I ran out of time to blog. So I’ll just point to a New…
Obama to Congress: Quality, not Quantity of Care
The President laid out the agenda for his second administration in last night’s State of the Union address. Tucked among the many issues he spoke about included a short push…
mHealth: Motivating for Healthy Behavior
This post has been submitted to the #HIMSS13 Blog Carnival under the category of Mobile Health. This post has been submitted to the #HIMSS13 Blog Carnival under the category of…
Assessing Med School Applicants’ Digital Footprints
As public social dialogue becomes the norm rather than the exception, it’s no surprise that some medical schools have taken to considering the digital footprint during the admissions process. The…
Happtique: An App Store for Health Apps
There are literally tens of thousands of health, fitness, wellness and medical apps in smartphone stores, from diet tracking to asthma monitoring to smoking cessation, and everything in between. The myriad…
5 Items Every Physician’s Website Should Have to Attract New Patients
It has been estimated that over 50 percent of people start their physician search online. And when it comes to health-related information, it is estimated that around 75 percent of…
