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By Matthew Holt Healogica was one of the companies that presented at Launch! at the Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference in Boston in April. I felt that the quality of the Launch! companies as so strong that they all deserved…

Giving up smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health no matter what your age – and you can start to notice the difference almost immediately!
After 20 minutes
Your blood pressure and pulse rate fall. This is important because high blood pressure increases your chance of having…
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There are so many books and magazines that deal with rapid weight loss and tricks, such as health can be improved. There is no end of opportunities to exercise and eat right, so you lose weight, but despite this awareness, there is an increase of obesity in the population. The simple reason is the…
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By DAVID C. KIBBE In a recent blog post on THCB, Mark Leavitt wrote this about me: “[Dr. Kibbe's] repeated use of falsehoods and innuendo to attack CCHIT have found an audience in the national media, reaching a level that…

Sonia Sotomayor has been named as a potential favorite to fill the upcoming Supreme Court opening.
But she has type I diabetes, and diabetes blogger Amy Tenderich discusses whether this will work against her.
As she puts it, this can be a ground-breaking decision, “where survivorship with chronic illness meets the glass ceiling.” There are arguments [...]

By Matthew Holt I met Leroy Jones at Health 2.0 Meets Ix in Boston. He runs the Technical Jones web site, and is a veteran of both sides of DC politics (inside and outside of Capitol Hill and the White…

The controversy over work limits for medical residents rolls on. An editorial in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine argues that studies haven’t clearly shown whether the caps imposed in 2003 have improved outcomes for patients.
Residents are newly minted med-school grads doing their intensive clinical training. Even under the caps, residents are allowed to [...]

By AARON APODACA and JULIE MURCHINSON Round 2 of Project HealthDesign, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, builds on a key learning from round 1: people live with and manage their health every day, not in discrete and separate…

I was out walking yesterday, and my leg started to feel weird. Kind of achy, kind of weak, kind of tingly. It continued to bother me for the rest of the day. Whether standing or sitting, I still had that weird pain and numbness.

By Matthew Holt For those of you who weren’t at Health 2.0 Meets Ix to hear from the mouths of the four horsemen (Halamka, Sands, Zeiger & deBronkhart) here is Google’s Roni Zeiger’s version of what went wrong with the…