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AOL Partners with TOMS One Day Without Shoes Challenge
AOL has joined up with TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" as a corporate partner for the third year in a row. The unique movement by TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" involves a pledge to go barefoot for a day on April 16, and enter a chance to win TOMS gear. "One Day Without Shoes" is a day to raise awareness about the impact that a pair of shoes can have on a child's future. The event spreads global awareness about children's health and education by encouraging participants to go without shoes for a day. Apart from spreading awareness around the world about the importance of shoes, TOMS initiates conversations about various causes it is closely...
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Tackling cancer with nanotechnology
A major downside to current chemotherapies for cancer treatment are their side effects. Since the drugs are not capable...
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Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Health Care Part 1
What is the best way to cut costs in a resource-constrained health care environment? This is an important question in t...
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Telemedicine expands health care access
The explosion and sinking of the Deep Water Horizon was a vivid reminder of the dangers that oil rig workers face. Comp...
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Global health advances against malaria
Malaria is a major global health concern, threatening about half the world's population, and killing 1 million people e...
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Asynchronous telepsychiatry: Increasing mental health care capacity
With many health care systems and rural regions facing apparent shortages of psychiatric clinicians, a new pilot study...
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Health care's telemonitoring evolution revolution
David Linden, professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, gave a recent commentary on the human brain that h...
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Regenerative health care: Growing human replacement parts
Joint replacements are one of the most common health care procedures performed. Each year 600,000 Americans have one of...
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Emerging international health care markets: Booming business in medical devices
Austin Texas based health care consulting firm Emergo Group recently announced the expansion of their European presence...
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OMG, more than one lesson from this diabetes study. LOL!
A recent press release caught the eye of many online health care journalists, especially those interested in technol...
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Frankenscience of biotech raises interesting health care quandaries
The biotech industry is a rapidly growing sector of the health care market, and rightly so since it offers many new pro...
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m-health care: Innovation & CSR
Just as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia announced that they are banning the use of Blackberry smart phones be...
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Better health care with better IT, part 3: Keys to success
Previous entries in this series on using IT to improve patient outcomes introduced the conundrum of health care outcome...
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Better health care with better IT, part 2: Implementation challenges
The first posting in this series outlined how Kaiser Permanente has developed a registry of joint replacements as one a...
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Better heath care with better IT, part 1: Outcomes registries
Health reform promises better care at a better price. But are we measuring outcomes to ensure that it's delivering on t...
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E-medicine To Help Health Reform But Are New Rules Enough?
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new requirements for implementation of electronic...
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Spiritual health care: Patients' spiritual needs at end-of-life
A fascinating review just released in the journal Palliative Medicine delves into the weighty topic of spiritual care i...
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New public health research finds only half of pregnant women receiving HIV drugs
One public health strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help reduce global HIV rates is to provid...
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Health care for the mind: Mental health funding gets the axe
Faced with challenges ranging from financial stress to displacement caused by conflicts or disasters, mental health is...
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Health reform and medical industry, part 2: Medical technology sector
In part 1, we looked at some challenges and opportunities that the pharmaceutical industry sees in health reform. Here...
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Most cancers survivable, new data confirms
Cancer most certainly appears among the top dread diseases that we hope to never be diagnosed with, or have a loved-one...
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