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Health Highlights – January 14, 2008

January 14, 2008 | by Walter Jessen

Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. For a complete list of recommeded sources, see our links page.

The Gene Genie Gone Awry? | Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You
The Gene Sherpa discusses false positives and educational shortcomings of most physicians with respect to genome scans.
Livin’ La Vida Long Time | Mark’s Daily Apple
Mark describes the results of a study that determined 4 simple rules to live longer and healthier.
Learner’s TV: Free Education Online | ScienceRoll
Berci describes a new online resource that provides free audio and video lectures, animations, live online tests and ebook downloads in many fields, including medicine, biology and chemistry.
The REAL Cutting Edge of Medicine | Secundum Artem
N.B. writes about a promising new vaccine to control high blood pressure by stimulating the human immune system to produce antibodies to break down angiotensin II.
You don’t have to exercise just think that you do | Dr Shock MD PhD
Dr Shock reviews a study that seems to challenge our basic assumptions about the relationship between mind and body.
What is peer review, anyway? | BPR3
Dave discusses peer review and the use of the BPR3 icon to show where thoughtful discussions regarding serious research are taking place throughout the blogosphere.

Lack of Health Insurance Increases Risk of Cancer Death

January 7, 2008 | by Walter Jessen

With all the recent discussion and debate by the presidential candidates regarding healthcare issues, I thought a study published last month in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians was quite timely. The study, titled Association of Insurance with Cancer Care Utilization and Outcomes, presents evidence that lack of adequate health insurance coverage is associated with reduced access to care and poorer outcomes for cancer patients [1]. The article further presents data on the association between health insurance status and screening, stage at diagnosis and survival for breast and colorectal cancer.

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The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2007 – The Year in Review

December 31, 2007 | by Walter Jessen

As 2007 comes to a close, I would like to thank you for your readership. Just over one year ago, I launched two websites, Highlight HEALTH and the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. Here at Highlight HEALTH, my goal was to write about biomedical research I found interesting and to make it easier for people to understand research findings, empowering them to have more productive discussions with their physicians and to make informed decisions about healthcare. The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is my endeavor to catalog and make available health-related websites I find to be informative and useful. More recently, I’ve also started writing about Web 2.0 in Health, Fitness and Medicine, and plan to publish a series of review articles on a number of health-focused social networks.

This past month, I started the Highlight HEALTH Network, an aggregation of content from both sites to allow readers to keep up with the latest articles on Highlight HEALTH and the newest additions to the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory, all from a single source.

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