Social Media Now Tracks Flu Faster Than the CDC
A social media health website predicted the 2012 flu season six weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did, according to the technology news website All Things…
Losing Weight and Keeping it Off
Did you hear about the new diet – eat all you want, or just eat protein, or just eat noodles, or just eat ice cream? Did you hear about the…
Drink Wine Fall Less
Sounds too good to be true huh! Because the inclination is to believe the more you drink the more unstable you become and the more likely to fall. Sounds too good…
Ask These 10 Questions Before Starting Any Medication
As a patient or caregiver, it is expected of us to have and ask all the questions regarding our health, medications and follow ups for our loved ones and ourselves.…
2013: The Year of Healthcare Emancipation?
Hang on to your hats – this one might wade into controversy. Hang on to your hats – this one might wade into controversy.As I write this (3:30pm EST on…
Caregiver’s Balm: Capture YOUR Creative Spirit
Recently, my mother-in-law, Maria, was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer and at 88 years old, that might just be a recipe for "caregiver doom and gloom," often felt when…
Understanding the Medical Device Tax
An Introduction to the Medical Excise Tax An Introduction to the Medical Excise TaxPassed as part of the recent overhaul to the American healthcare industry popularly known as "Obamacare", the…
Top Ten HealthCare Quotes of 2012
Editor's Note: Dan Munro is a contributing editor to Forbes.com. His columns are collected under the heading, "The HealthCare Compass. Editor's Note: Dan Munro is a contributing editor to Forbes.com. …
The Man Who Brought Computers Into Medicine
First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012 First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012When Homer Warner first started using computers in a hospital, the computers were analog and the house call was state-of-the-art. Although…
Breach of UofM Health System: 4K Affected
The University of Michigan Health System has been notifying around 4,000 patients last week that demographic, medication and health information has been stolen. The University of Michigan Health System has…
