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Beat the winter blues with spring greens! Time to put away heavy winter foods and break out a fresh flavor palette. Here are a few recipes that are easy to prepare and make the most of transitional winter-to-spring vegetable flavors. The basic ingredients are completely interchangeable and you can just pick whatever suits your mood, your appetite, your garden, your family, or your refrigerator.
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The role of social media or web 2.0 in the future of healthcare is becoming increasingly important as a resource for practitioners and providing valuable tools to increase efficiency in their practices.
In this example, David Margolius, a Brown University Medical student, conducts an experiment to improve access, patient care and clinic flow at the Southeast Health Center in San Francisco, California. Margolius had looked at a couple of expensive options, but at the suggestion of a friend, he implemented the "Check-in Tracker", a Google Docs shared spreadsheet to be used at the front desk or...Read More »
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According to a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and conducted at Boston’s MassGeneral Hospital for Children, more than a quarter of U.S. children live with at least one chronic health condition. What’s more, the major childhood afflictions of 50 years ago (congenital defects, infectious disease and accidents) are on the decrease, while lifestyle-related conditions (obesity, asthma, other physical conditions, and behavior/learning problems) are on the increase.
This is a dangerous and costly trend that will no doubt have a major impact on the nation’s health policy.
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It is estimated that over 90% of the cells inside our bodies are not our own—they belong to our gut flora, the “garden” of bacteria within our digestive tracts (without which human survival would be quite a challenge).
It is also estimated that a well-nourished adult eats at least 30 tons of food in a...Read More »
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Preliminary results from Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) affirm that the Internet has become an increasingly important source of health information for consumers, although many are concerned about security and confidentiality.
According to the survey of 7,192 adults age 18-64, in the first six months of 2009:
- 51% used the Internet to look up health information
- 3% used an online chat group to learn about health topics
- Women (58%) were more likely than men (43%) to look up health information on the Internet
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