The Latest Articles on Highlight HEALTH


  • MicroRNAs in Human Health and Disease

    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

    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 protein or nucleic acid. The irreversible flow of information is from DNA to [...]


  • Tackling Heart Disease Together or Alone: The Behavioural Science of Self-Management

    Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

    Heart disease is the leading killer in the U.S. and throughout most of Europe. People’s behaviour can protect and reduce risk of heart disease, and interventions to help people “self-manage” exist. But what is the best way to “self-manage”? A [...]


  • New Highlight HEALTH Writer: Faith Martin

    Monday, June 22nd, 2009

    I’d like to welcome a new writer to Highlight HEALTH, Faith Martin. Faith is a PhD-trained research psychologist in health behaviors and is currently involved in studies at the Applied Research Centre for Health and Lifestyle Interventions at Coventry University. Her [...]


  • Health Highlights - June 18th, 2009

    Thursday, June 18th, 2009

    Failure’s ROI | phil baumann online Phil Baumann draws a connection between today’s omnipresent theme to succeed, grief and failure, and the evolving world of social media. Angels fall fast from the sky, but roots grow deep in the darkness. SPF 100 [...]


  • Recovery Act Drives Record Number of NIH Grant Applications

    Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009. It included significant support for biomedical research. As part of the Recovery Act, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [...]


The Latest Articles on Highlight HEALTH 2.0


  • 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 Dimov


  • 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 [...]


  • OrganizedWisdom: Much Ado About Very Little

    Monday, February 23rd, 2009

    This article was written by Hope Leman. Consumer health sites are all over the Web and more and more of the content they are producing is working its way into search engine results on health-related topics. Some of this material is solid enough, but much is simply banter or commiseration of one heat


  • Health 2.0 Highlights - February 9th, 2009

    Monday, February 09th, 2009

    Improving Your Medical Literacy | The Decision Tree Decreased mortality is one of a number of benefits of health literacy. While health 2.0 empowers the next-generation of healthcare consumers, we shouldn't forget about the other half of the problem. PeRSSonalized Medicine | Webicina.


  • Not Much Hope for HopeCube

    Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

    This article was written by Hope Leman. Just try keeping track of the plethora of players in the online patient community / health-focused social network scene. Many patient communities have been started (e.g. MDJunction) by entrepreneurs who were spurred to create their sites by the difficulties fr