The User Experience with Health 2.0: Doctors and Patients
Video: Over the past six weeks we’ve interviewed doctors and patients about how they use Web 2.0 technologies to manage disease and conditions. We traveled from San Francisco to Brooklyn, with a pit stop in Second Life.
The American Alpine Club
Video: As climbing becomes more and more popular, and people are running farther into the mountains and scaling harder and harder cliffs, the presence of a strong organization - a not-for-profit organization, by climbers and for climbers - becomes even more important.
A Brief History of Medicine.
VIDEO: How to tell the history of medicine in under four minutes, thirty seconds.
Déme La Vaca
Article: My sister and I just arrived in Buenos Aires, the starting point to our adventures in Argentina. Next stop, Las Lenas, where we’ll be skiing for the next seven days. My phrase of the day so far has been “déme la vaca”, which i will use frequently in the restaurants. This is all part of my research into Argentinian beef versus American beef.
Alzheimers and RFID: Safety First or Privacy Violation?
ARTICLE: Radio Frequency Identification Devices are not new. They’ve just never been used this way in humans.
The Living Brain - An Interview with Norman Doidge
AUDIO: Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.
ACT UP Turns 20: The Voice of AIDS in America
“Could anyone have imagined six million Jews would be exterminated during World War II,” says Andrew Velez, Chair of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Action Committee during the recent taping of our web TV series Reporting AIDS. “Nor did I think AIDS would become a world-wide epidemic killing millions of people.â€
In 1981, recognized as […]
Female Sexual Dysfunction, Marketing and Disease-Mongering
Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D. introduces an educational campaign that challenges the myths promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and calls for research on the many causes of women’s sexual problems.
The pharmaceutical industry wants women to think that sexual problems are simple and offers drugs as magic fixes. But positive sexual experiences require accurate, unbiased information.
The FSD-Alert […]
Center For Disease Control Issues Pandemic Guidelines
Seven new cases of the H5N1 — or Avian Flu — virus occurred over the past two weeks killing five, Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, revealed Thursday.
Just because the Avian Flu no longer generates the media buzz it once did does not make the danger of an outbreak any […]
Can Richard Branson Save the US Healthcare System?
When Richard Branson decides to enter a market, people pay attention. Typically, he picks on industries that are notorious for poor customer service.
One of the more interesting sessions from the Consumer Health World conference was with Chris Boyce, CEO of Virgin life care. I was intrigued to learn what this brand powerhouse had up its […]
