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Neurofibromatosis and The Children?s Tumor Foundation
2007-06-15 07:13:00 The annual Children ’s Tumor Foundation NF Conference was held in Park City, Utah earlier this week (June 10-12). For three days, research and clinical investigators from around the world met to present their data and discuss the latest findings in neurofibromatosis (NF) research. This year the meeting focused on models, mechanisms and therapeutic targets. The Children’s ... More About: Dati , Matos
Medicine 2.0 at ScienceRoll
2007-06-12 19:21:00 The first edition of Medici ne 2.0, a new blog carnival devoted to the special relationship between Web 2.0 and medicine, is up at ScienceRoll. Highlight HEALTH was included in the 15 articles about Medicine 2.0: “What about the future? Walter at HighlightHealth tells us in his post: Web 3.0 and Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine.” What is Medicine 2.0? Medicine 2.0 is the synergy of Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis and other interactive services as well as RSS and website tagging and organizing tools) and medicine. A similar term, Health 2.0, encompasses today’s internet services and healthcare, although I think the terms may be used interchangeably. An excellent article on Medicine 2.0 written in December 2006 can be read in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). More information about Medicine 2.0, the biweekly blog carnival devoted to web 2.0 and medicine, can be found at the official Medicine 2.0 webpage. health 2.0, medicine 2.0, web 2.0, web 3.0 ...
Tumor Suppressors and Oncogenes
2007-06-06 06:45:00 The cell cycle is a series of ordered events that occur in a cell between it’s initial formation and eventual duplication and division into two daughter cells. Cells in the human body normally reproduce up to ~50 times (1), doubling their number with each cell cycle. Stem cells provide a pool of dividing cells to ... More About: Tumor , Gene , Esso , Genes
Highlight HEALTH Links - June 1st, 2007
2007-06-02 02:30:00 Flea Outed In Court « Universal Heal th N=1 over at Universal Health discusses Flea’s malpractice case settlement and the bigger picture of social responsiblity. Dr. Jim Watson’s Genome Sequenced for 2 Million Dollars « Eye on DNA Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA congratulates Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. He’s the first human to ... More About: June , Links , Highlight
Healthy Links for Friday, June 1st
2007-06-02 02:30:00 Here’s what I’ve been reading recently: Flea Outed In Court « Universal Health N=1 over at Universal Health discusses Flea’s malpractice case settlement and the bigger picture of social responsiblity. Dr. Jim Watson’s Genome Sequenced for 2 Million Dollars « Eye on DNA Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA congratulates Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. ... More About: June , Links , Friday , Healthy , Frida
Grand Rounds at From Medskool
2007-05-30 05:58:00 A Memorial Day Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 36) is up at From Meds kool. Colin has done a great job organizing 50 of the best posts the medical blogosphere has to offer this week in eight categories including “Dealing with Disease”, “The Clinical”, “Health Policy”, “Tales & Rants of Medical Students”, “Tales & Rants Of ... More About: Kool , Rounds
Quercetin Boosts Immunity and Helps Maintain Mental Performance
2007-05-26 08:00:00 In February 2007, researchers at Appalachian State University announced the results of a clinical study on the flavonoid quercetin at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, held in Charlotte, N.C. Their results showed that quercetin may help reduce illness and maintain mental performance in physcially stressed test subjects. I’ve written ... More About: Mental , Performance , Menta , Form , Unity
The Medical Blogosphere and the State of Healthcare Blogging
2007-05-24 08:35:00 Healthcare Vox published an article earlier this week entitled “Is the Medical Blogosphere Dying?”, commenting on the number of well-known medical bloggers leaving the blogosphere. Although I don’t think the medical blogosphere is dying, recent events have been a catalyst for change and it’s definitely undergoing a transformation. The Blog That Ate Manhattan agrees, saying “I ... More About: Healthcare , Blogging , State
Grand Rounds at ImpactEDnurse
2007-05-23 06:30:00 Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 32) is up at ImpactEDnurse. Ian challenged everyone to submit a post they were particularly proud of. Each link is followed by a brief preface by its author. Head on over for some excellent reading! Highlight HEALTH was among the authors listed: Highlight Health: The best way to stay healthy and avoid ... More About: Grand , Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds at Ami Chopine
2007-05-22 06:10:00 Pediatric Grand Round s (Volume 2, Issue 3), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Ami Chopine. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the “Dealing with Illness” section: “Walter of Highlight HEALTH gives us some advice regarding how to use the internet to become an empowered ... More About: Rounds , Pediatric
Gene Genie at Gene Sherpas
2007-05-20 07:13:00 The seventh edition of Gene Geni e, the blog carnival on genes and gene-related diseases, is up at Gene Sherpas : Personalized Medicine and You. Earlier this month, I posted an article quoting George Weinstock, co-director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine. He was contemplating whether the technology to sequence individual genomes will ... More About: Genie
In Memorandum
2007-05-17 16:05:00 The medical blogosphere lost two important voices this week. FatDoctor was forced to shut down her blog due to privacy concerns. Flea’s blog mysteriously vanished. Given that he has been blogging about his malpractice trial, it’s likely that his blog also was taken down because of privacy issues. Hopefully, we’ll see his blog reappear when ... More About: Memo , Mora
Quercetin
2007-05-16 07:54:00 Quercetin is a polyphenol, one of a number of water-soluble plant pigments called flavonoids (meaning class of plant secondary metabolites known for their antioxidant activity) that are largely responsible for the color of many flowers, fruits and vegetables. High concentrations of quercetin are found in apples, onions, tea and red wine (1). Other sources of ...
Alternative Ethanol Fuel Won?t Improve Future Air Quality
2007-05-12 08:39:00 Ethanol is produced biologically by fermenting sugar with Saccharomyces yeasts. Under anaerobic (meaning in the absence of oxygen) conditions, when yeast metabolize sugar, they produce ethanol and carbon dioxide. Bioethanol (meaning ethanol production derived from crops) is the most common renewable fuel today and is derived from corn grain (starch) and sugar cane (sucrose) (1). ... More About: Ethanol , Future , Fuel , Alternative , Improve
2007: The Year of the Personalized Genomics
2007-05-08 20:30:00 George Weinstock, co-director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote a short, interesting article posted to MIT’s Tech Review, contemplating whether this year may be remembered as the year of the personalized genome. In April, two companies, 454 Life Sciences and Illumina, announced plans to sequence individual human genomes. While genotyping ... More About: Healthcare , Person , Persona , Year , Sona
Alternative to Dichloroacetate
2007-05-04 16:46:00 It’s been three months since an article on dichloroacetate (DCA), the chemotherapeutic agent that selectively inhibits cancer cell growth in lung, breast and brain tumor cells grown in culture and lung tumors grown in immunocompromised rats, was published on Highlight HEALTH. Since then, thousands of people have read the article. Indeed, the blogosphere has been ... More About: Alternative , Etat , Alter , Native , Alterna
Grand Rounds at Shrink Rap
2007-05-03 06:40:00 Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 32) is up at Shrink Rap: BYOB (Bring Your Own Brain). Dinah, ClinkShrink and Roy have also put together a podcast of this week’s GR. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the Internet section: “Walter from Highlight Health provides us a list of Healthcare Self-Mangement Suggestions for e-Patients.” Grand Rounds , the weekly blog carnival ... More About: Grand
Highlight HEALTH is Now HONcode Accredited
2007-05-02 08:18:00 I’m very pleased to announce that High light HEALTH is now an HONcode accredited website. As I wrote in my previous article The Trust and Credibility of Heal th care Blogs, I believe that when it comes to blogging about healthcare, trust and credibility are essential. One of the principle motivations for creating Highlight HEALTH was to develop a ... More About: Light
Healthcare Self-Management Suggestions for e-Patients
2007-04-29 06:58:00 We are witnessing a transformation of healthcare into the information age. The Internet has become a powerful healthcare resource for both physicians and patients. e-Patients represent a new type of informed health consumer, a term encompassing both primary patients who use the Internet to educate themselves about a given medical condition for their own illness ... More About: Management , Healthcare , Suggestion , Self-Management
Grand Rounds at Med Valley High
2007-04-27 07:15:00 A “stellar” Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 31) is up at Med Valley High . Liana wrote a great GR of highlights of the medical blogging universe using a space odessy theme. Articles of the week Berci over at Scienceroll presents Genetics and Web 2.0: The Presentation. The result of 4 months work, Berci presents the importance and ... More About: Rounds
FDA Attempting to Regulate Dietary Supplements
2007-04-26 08:01:00 I’ve been so busy the last few weeks I missed this altogether. Many thanks to Jenny, a Highlight HEALTH email subscriber, for bringing this to my attention. A new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) docket was published on the FDA website last month. The draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the FDA’s current thinking on ... More About: Supplements , Supple , Supplement , Late , Dietary
Pediatric Grand Rounds: The Year in Review at Unintelligent Design
2007-04-25 05:18:00 Pediatric Grand Rounds (PGR) Volume 2, Edition 1: The Year In Review has been posted over at Unintelligent Design . Clark Bartram, the father of PGR, choose the posts he thought were the “cream of the crop” from the past 12 months worth of PGR editions. It’s a Best of the Best PGR, so make time for ... More About: View , Sign
Polyphenols
2007-04-24 17:50:00 Polyphenolic compounds (meaning the presence of more than one phenol group per molecule), often referred to as polyphenols, are plant-derived polyhydroxylated (meaning has more than one hydroxyl (OH), or alcohol, group attached) phytochemicals. Polyphenols are divided into three classes and include tannins, phenylpropanoids and flavonoids. Tannins are astringent (meaning a substance that contracts bodily tissues), ... More About: Poly
Earth Day - A Call for Action on Climate Change
2007-04-22 17:34:00 Today is the 38th annual Earth Day. This year, the Earth Day Network has called on lighting manufactuers and policy makers to encourage the transition to energy efficient lighting by 2016. Earth Day Network Project Switch is dedicated to switching out inefficient incandescent light bulbs (1). Today, the project will reach out to over 500 ... More About: Action , Climate Change , Climate
Grand Rounds at Fat Doctor
2007-04-18 16:44:00 Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 30), the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been posted at Fat Doctor . Highlight HEALTH was mentioned under Policy Matters: Walter at Highlight Health reviews efforts to establish trust and credibility on medical blogs. They might as well pull the plug on my blog right now ... More About: Grand , Rounds
The Trust and Credibility of Healthcare Blogs
2007-04-16 07:30:00 A recent survey from Zogby finds that more than half of Americans (55%) believe bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said that citizen journalism and Web 2.0 websites such as NowPublic will play a vital new role (1). NowPublic Crowd Powered Media describes itself as: ” … a participatory news network which ... More About: Health , Healthcare , Blogs , Blog , Care
Discovery Setting It?s Sites On Green
2007-04-13 06:51:00 Discovery Communications has announced that it plans to start a 24-hour channel focused on eco-friendly living. Riding on the tails of its successful “Planet Earth” series, the company will rebrand its Discovery Home Channel with a name that has yet-to-be selected. The channel, expected to debut in 2008, will be dedicated to the highest quality ... More About: Discovery , Green , Sites , Cover , Over
Discovery Setting It?s Sites On Green
2007-04-13 06:51:00 Discovery Communications has announced that it plans to start a 24-hour channel focused on eco-friendly living. Riding on the tails of its successful “Planet Earth” series, the company will rebrand its Discovery Home Channel with a name that has yet-to-be selected. The channel, expected to debut in 2008, will be dedicated to the highest quality ... More About: Discovery , Green , Site , Sites , Cover
Grand Rounds at Dr Dork
2007-04-11 07:00:00 Grand Round s (Volume 3, Issue 29), the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been posted at Dr Dork . There were roughly four times the number of submissions for the designated size of this week’s edition. Only 30 selections made the cut - Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the Medicine in the Media section: Walter at HighlightHealth examines an inflammatory television “investigation” of pharmaceutical dispensing errors. Articles of the week ChronicBabe suggests 10 ways to make more time for yourself when you’re sick. The article and her tips on time management are an excellent read. Orac evaluates the Early detection of cancer, arguing that we shouldn’t detect disease at ever lower thresholds nor treat cancer at ever earlier time points. His discussion of this surprisingly complicated question is thought-provoking as always. Remember, choosing a healthy lifestyle can not only maintain your health, but reduce your risks for d... More About: Grand , Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds at Dr. Flea Blog
More articles from this author:2007-04-10 16:29:00 Pediatric Grand Round s (Volume 1, Issue 26), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Dr. Flea Blog . This edition’s articles are presented quite originally in context of the anatomy of a Flea. Highlight HEALTH has been mentioned in the Antennae section: Let us point our port-side antenna toward Walter at Highlight Health. Walter contributes “An Inconvenient Financial Truth - Healthcare Costs Endanger U.S. Financial Stability”. This story isn’t exactly a news-flash. We’ve known for some time that as the boomers age we’re gonna run out of cash to pay for the entitlements we’ve promised them. The bit that really sticks in Flea’s craw is this quote from U.S. Comptroller General David Walker: “On [health care] cost we’re number one in the world. We spend 50 percent more of our economy on health care than any nation on earth. We have the largest uninsured population of an... More About: Pedi , Rounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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