May 10th, 2010 by Bryan Vartabedian, M.D. in Better Health Network, Book Reviews, Health Policy, Health Tips, Opinion
Tags: DNA, Empowers Doctors, General Medicine, Genes, Genetics, Health Blueprint, Health Infosphere, Healthcare Consumers, Healthcare Decisions, Medical Destiny, Medical Technology, Naysayers, New Era, Patient Empowerment, Patient Liberation, Patient Responsibility, Personal Genomics, Personal Roadmap, Personalized Health, Personalized Medicine, Primary Care, Rodale, Self-Care, Silly Old Doctors, Stewards of Our Own Health, Taking Control of Your Health, The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz
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What’s amazing is that despite the vocal movement to empower patients, no one has put together a well-referenced, readable book to help patients understand how they should use personalized medicine to influence their health — until now.
Enter The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine (Rodale 2010), something of a blueprint of patient liberation written by Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired magazine. It offers constructive narrative not only about the importance of the decisions we make but how to apply the concept of an old-fashioned decision tree in making those decisions. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts*
May 9th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, Health Tips
Tags: Aging Parents, At-Home Caregiving, Automated Phone System, Automatic Call, Care Circle, Caregivers, Checking on Mom, Daily Phone Calls, E-Tools, Elderly Family Members, Email Updates, Family Medicine, FineThanx, Geriatrics, In-Home, iPhone, Loved Ones, PC, Personal Computer, Primary Care, Safety, Well-Being
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FineThanx is a new automated phone system that automatically calls your sick or elderly family members at home to check on how they’re doing.
The system can check in with loved ones once or twice a day, and if no one answers or the person is unwell, the system calls a member of his or her “care circle.”
If everything is fine, the FineThanx system will send you a report by email, so you can continue working or finish those 18 holes of golf, then check in for reassurance on your iPhone or personal computer afterwards.
Listen to a sample call here.
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
May 8th, 2010 by Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, News, Opinion
Tags: Boston, Child Safety, Children's Medication Recall, Correct Dose, Dosage, Drug Recall, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Generic, McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Medicine Cabinet, Medicines for Kids, New England Cable News, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Pharmaceutical Companies, Preventive Medicine, Primary Care, Product Safety, Proper Medication, Trust
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The [recent] massive recall of some of the most popular [children’s] medications is unsettling, disturbing and concerning. Thankfully it was done as a precautionary move before any child was harmed and that there’s a sufficient supply of generic alternatives of the medications recalled.
Still, having 40 popular medications recalled by one of today’s most trusted pharmaceutical manufacturers rocks our confidence in the safeguards in place at the core. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Gwenn Is In*
May 8th, 2010 by KevinMD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Health Tips, Humor, News, Opinion
Tags: Boston Nit-Picker, Children, Communicable Disease, Get Rid of Lice, Hair, Head Lice, Head Lice Nits, Head-To-Head Contact, Healthcare Field, Infestation, Itchy, kids, Killing Lice, Lice-Killing Industry, Licebeaters, Medical Profession, Parasites, Parasitic Insects, Parents, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Pediculosis Capitis, Scalp, Texas Lice Squad
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What’s one of the fastest growing healthcare fields? A professional nitpicker — as in the profession of picking lice out of hair.
In a recent New York Times story, it’s becoming apparent that parents will do anything to get rid of lice. Part of it is the stigma associated with it, part of it is the “ickiness” factor. As a parent myself, I certainly understand the sentiment. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
May 8th, 2010 by Debra Gordon in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Adulthood, Children, Effects of Stress, Growing Up, Health-Damaging, How Stress Affects Health, kids, Managing Stress, Psychology, Real Life, Stress Hormones, Stresses, Stressors, Teenagers
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So I’ve been thinking a lot about stress lately.
Obviously, it’s because I’m in one of those work/personal periods where the word comes in all capital letters and my dreams seem to be caught on a continual loop of taking-an-exam-in-a-class-I-forgot-to-attend-all-semester (and yes, I’ve been out of school for 26 years now)/realizing-I-just-bought-a-new-house-and-have-to-move/or, finding-that-I-have-10-stories-due-tomorrow (for the newspaper at which I haven’t worked in years).
This latter dream comes closest to my own situation at the moment given that I find myself with just a wee bit too much work for the time allotted (ok, maybe a lot too much work). I’m coping — going to bed later, getting up earlier, reaching out to a couple of writer friends for help) but it nonetheless has my cortisol and norepinephrine hormone production on overtime.
Which brings me to the point of this blog. Your health on stress. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at A Medical Writer's Musings on Medicine, Health Care, and the Writing Life*
