HealthCommentaryCodeBlueNow! explores common ground; cross-sector platforms emerging Will this be the season of Health Care Reform? With the economy swirling, and the current approach to health care in the U.S. arguably a deeply embedded complication, is it possible to imagine and implement a fundamentally different approach to care that promotes goodness and fairness, quality, access […]
A valuable resource for both teachers and students Three things are happening to health education information these days. First, it’s going electronic and virtual. Second, it’s uniting various audiences, bringing them together, often in new and interactive ways, to inform, educate and bridge. Third, it’s changing the power equation, emphasizing that we are all teachers […]
Blending economics and psychology on behalf of healthDespite the great strides that we have made in health care over the last 50 years, we find ourselves in 2008 with an interesting problem: There is growing acknowledgement that human behavior has been unable to maintain pace with scientific understanding. When it first became obvious that we […]
The radura label Food-borne safety is front and center once again in America, spawning a boom in home-grown foods and "green" or "organic" alternatives. At the same time, we seem to be losing confidence in an inadequately funded FDA to police food at its source and manage the safety of the increasingly complex global food […]
Thinking strategically about health in a connected world Two weeks ago I participated in a conference in Norfolk, Virginia in a session with Dr. Selwyn Rogers, Chief of the Trauma Division at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health for Partners Health Care. Selwyn’s research interest is […]
A good example of techmanityI’ve been making the case for “Techmanity” – technology embraced by health care professionals as a human connector and humanizing force. If you’d like a concrete example, and need to put a bit of a smile on your face today, take a look at this piece from the UK on seniors […]
Emerging evidence suggests personal care products can affect hormonal balance in men and women Healthy skin or healthy hormones – is that the choice our bath, body and cosmetics products are forcing us to make? In our looks-fixated, aging averse society, we hold our personal care products in great esteem. “Moisturize away dry skin and wrinkles!” We dutifully obey […]
