The Latest Articles on Highlight HEALTH


  • Health Highlights – March 11th, 2010

    Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

    Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. [...]


  • New Approach to Immune Cell Analysis Seen as First Step to Better Distinguish Health and Disease

    Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

    Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish betw [...]


  • Scientists Find New Form of Prion Disease that Damages Brain Arteries

    Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

    National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cereb [...]


  • Food Allergy-Related Disorder Linked to Master Allergy Gene

    Monday, March 08th, 2010

    Scientists have identified a region of a human chromosome that is associated with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a recently recognized allergic disease. People with EoE frequently have difficulty eating or may be allergic to one or more foods. This study further suggests that a suspected so-called [...]


  • The National Health Observances Toolkit

    Wednesday, March 03rd, 2010

    To help promote certain health observances, the National Health Observances Toolkit provides information and ideas to engage the public in health promotion activities. [...]


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 [...]