Following up on one of the recommendations in the item below, you may recall that I have written before about the use of games and other light-hearted events to promote better hand hygiene. That, plus a lot of hard work, has resulted in general improvement in the hospital.
A key part of the program, consistent [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a Boston hospital that had shut down employee access to various social media sites and offered my view that it was not a productive thing to do. Here’s a similar view from Socialnomics. The site notes that only 11% of companies do not put some [...]
Wow! What a lightning-rod this can become. Lifestyle choices and health conditions driving potential increases in health insurance coverage costs.
Watch this MSNBC news video, as it discusses North Carolina’s intention to make state workers who are morbidly obese, pay more for their health insurance, Should weight impact your health costs?
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, [...]
I’ve received a lovely collection of eight faux marriage certificates from Guild Member Des Gander as a result of his Marriage Challenge for the Honiton Registration District in Devon. The Cruwys marriages all relate to the Mariansleigh tree, and I have passed on copies to the relevant researchers.
Rather fortuitously Jan Ennis in New Zealand has [...]
H1N1 Fraudulent Products
This FDA widget helps you find out if a product you’re interested in is legitimate or a fake.
I commute on public transportation every day. We’re in the heighth of cold and flu season. I’m not likely to try any of these products, but if you’re interested, check them out before you buy [...]
E-patient Dave informs me of a new venture, the Journal of Participatory Medicine, a peer-reviewed open access journal. It is the product of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here’s the lead-in to issue #1, along with other material from the Society:
Our mission is to transform the culture of medicine to be more participatory. [...]
I just returned from a session for minority students at Harvard Medical School where I joined my Harvard hospital CEO colleagues in addressing the students on the topic of “Why Boston? Building your Career in Academic Medicine in Boston.” You might be interested to know that, decades ago, Boston was considered one of [...]
The Feast 2009
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“The three-dimensional structure of the human genome has been mapped. Job Dekker of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Eric Lander of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and their co-workers identified segments of the genome that tend to sit close together. [...] The team found that each chromosome weaves between two compartments: [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new website that benefits current and potential users of hearing aids, A New Online Guide to Hearing Aids.
The site includes sections on:
general information on hearing aids
types of hearing loss
types and styles of hearing aids
how to get a hearing aid
benefits and [...]