The Latest Articles on Highlight HEALTH


  • The Link Between Positive Psychology and Cancer Survival

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    The seemingly common idea that a positive outlook will help someone in poor health is currently under scientific investigation. A special supplement of the Annals of Behavioural Medicine directly addressed this topic and a recent article in the Lancet explored the relationship between positive psych [...]


  • The Truth About Organ Donation

    Thursday, August 26th, 2010

    Right now, more than 107,000 Americans wait for a life-saving organ transplant. The list grows with another name every 11 minutes, and every day, 18 people on that list die. One organ donor can save eight people’s lives and a tissue donor can help up to 50 others. The fact remains, however, that t [...]


  • Social Media in Health and Medicine: Medlibs Round 2.7

    Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

    Welcome to Medlib's Round, edition 2.7, the monthly blog carnival highlighting excellent blog posts in the field of medical information. For this edition, we wanted to focus on how social media is being used to promote health information online. [...]


  • The Quick Guide to Healthy Living

    Wednesday, August 04th, 2010

    healthfinder.gov recently released a tool that makes it easier and faster to find actionable prevention and wellness tips: the Quick Guide to Healthy Living. [...]


  • MedLibs Round 2.7 Call for Submissions

    Sunday, July 25th, 2010

    Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of the MedLib’s Round, edition 2.7, on Tuesday, August 10th and is inviting submissions based on the theme of "Leveraging social media to promote health information online". [...]


The Latest Articles on Highlight HEALTH 2.0


  • Health 2.0 Highlights: November 1st, 2009

    Sunday, November 01st, 2009

    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 collaboration? Google sidewiki: what can pharma do? | STweM Andrew Spong ruminates about Google sidewi


  • Digital Pathology and Visuvi Visual Search

    Thursday, August 13th, 2009

    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 JavaFX front-end with PathXchange, a Web 2.0 pathology portal. The Visuvi Java application enables medic


  • Consumer Hospital Comparison Website Now Includes Quality Data On Readmission Rates

    Thursday, July 09th, 2009

    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 groups. HQA members collaborate to make meaningful, relevant and easy-to-understand information abou


  • Health 2.0 Highlights: June 6th, 2009

    Saturday, June 06th, 2009

    Want to know what I ware? | RobFraser.ca Keeping with the meme of essential medical software and "core apps", Rob Fraser describes his physical and virtual desktop. Create an automatic differential diagnosis list with Google Squared | Clinical Cases and Images – Blog Dr. Ves


  • Sharing Genes on the Social Web: PatientsLikeMe ALS Genetics Search Engine

    Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

    This article was written by Hope Leman. This is the kind of story that gets me out of bed before I go to work in a few hours at our small medical library and to try to get the news out of what should be a fascinating development in search, Health 2.0, Science 2.0 and public [...]