Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Nov 18, 2009, 11:38 am
Author disclosure of financial associations with commercial entities that have an interest in the research published in medical journals is common practice. The information provided in the disclosure ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Nov 11, 2009, 10:11 pm
... will offer ideas and advice to help people use the Web more effectively to search and find credible health information. Searching the Web ... Dr Shock cites the advantages of cloud computing ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH 2.0 - Nov 1, 2009, 10:30 pm
A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave | phil baumann online Phil Baumann provides an overview on Google Wave and asks if the underlying technology offers any glimpse into improving clinical collaboratio...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Nov 1, 2009, 9:57 pm
Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of the MedLib’s Round Blog Carnival, edition 1.8, next week on Tuesday, November 10th. The Highlight HEALTH Network promotes health literacy by...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 30, 2009, 3:31 pm
... Lark McCarthy discusses the level of testing prior to the H1N1 influenza A vaccine distribution and the subsequent monitoring ... Report (via the AP), 22 million more doses of H1N1 influenza v...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 30, 2009, 10:35 am
Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. For a complete list of recommeded sources, s...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 21, 2009, 11:14 pm
Two studies, which are available online as early release articles and will be published in the November edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), detail the characteristics, t...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 19, 2009, 8:39 am
Many people believe that the brain is hardwired in childhood and, as we grow older, cognitive decline is inevitable; we becoming more forgetful, less inclined to seek new experiences and more set in o...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 9, 2009, 9:31 pm
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced earlier this week. The prize was awarded to three U.S. scientists for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the e...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Oct 1, 2009, 11:49 am
We’ve received a number of questions and concerns about the swine flu and the H1N1 vaccine. Indeed, a new survey by the Harvard School of Public Health finds that six in ten adults are not R...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 29, 2009, 11:35 pm
Experts agree that diet and nutrition can reduce risk of many diseases, including different types of cancer and chronic disease. A recent update to a 2007 report by the American Institute for Cancer R...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 27, 2009, 8:35 pm
I’d like to welcome a new contributing writer to Highlight HEALTH, Allison Bland. Allison works for a science advocacy organization in Washington D.C. that works to make information about research ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 22, 2009, 7:58 pm
HIPAA’s Broken Promise | e-Patients.net When researchers have access to private health information, they can use it to develop treatments and therapies. However, there's a danger to all tha...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 17, 2009, 11:24 pm
As you or perhaps your parents get older, would you want to be at home when recovering from an illness? Would the choice between home rehabilitation or visits to a day hospital make a difference to yo...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 15, 2009, 7:24 am
Preliminary results from two studies published online last week by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) show that a single dose of the H1N1 vaccine will offer protection for most adults within t...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 9, 2009, 2:01 pm
Vaccines TV News Spots | Doctor Anonymous In Ohio, the videographer Doctor Anonymous hits airwaves with his local CBS affiliate to talk about immunizations. The Obesity Epidemic | fundscience.org I...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Sep 1, 2009, 11:38 pm
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have discovered the first gene involved in regulating the length of human sleep. The study, published recently in the journal Science, ident...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Aug 24, 2009, 11:25 pm
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) hints at a future where a daily multi-vitamin could be replaced with a personalized vitamin that would work with the unique...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH 2.0 - Aug 13, 2009, 10:07 am
At the 2009 JavaOne Conference in June, Visuvi Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company developing visual search solutions, announced a Java-based visual search technology that integrates a Java...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Aug 11, 2009, 9:54 am

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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Aug 7, 2009, 11:00 am
What is Success Or Failure or the Philosophy of Success | Dr Shock MD PhD Do you ever reflect on your career? It may be easier now than ever before to make a good living, but it's harder to stay ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Aug 5, 2009, 11:33 pm
In May, we wrote about the Spectrum Health Value Study, an ongoing national online survey where Americans are asked what they value when it comes to healthcare products and services. The survey evalua...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Jul 30, 2009, 7:18 pm
With summer upon us in full force, many people are eager to get out and enjoy some time in the sun. However, prolonged ultraviolet (UV) light exposure poses a threat during summer months. Indeed, for ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Jul 24, 2009, 6:58 am
According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61% of adults look online for health information. Indeed, searching for health information online is dangerous and finding cre...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Jul 15, 2009, 10:00 am
Last week, President Barack Obama nominated physician and geneticist Francis Collins as the next Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1993 — 2008, Dr. Collins was the first ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH 2.0 - Jul 9, 2009, 11:19 pm
Launched in 2002, the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) is a national public-private initiative that includes hospitals, physicians, nurses, federal agencies, quality experts, and consumer and business ...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Jul 8, 2009, 11:16 pm
A new study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine finds that, on average, physicians fail to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients - or fail to document that...
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Walter J. posted an article on Highlight HEALTH - Jul 1, 2009, 1:02 am
The central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-residue transfer of sequential information. It states that such information cannot be transferred from protein to either prote...
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