The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2008 – The Year in Review

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As Highlight HEALTH celebrates its second year promoting advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued readership.

Three websites make up the Highlight HEALTH Network:

• Highlight HEALTH
• Highlight HEALTH 2.0
• The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

Each of these sites has a different purpose. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we focus on evidence-based biomedical research to educate readers and empower patients (if you’re interested in contributing, please let us know). Highlight HEALTH 2.0, a group effort, follows the use of Web 2.0 in health and medicine. Lastly, the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is an online reference guide for reliable health and medical information.

There are more ways than ever to connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network, including email/RSS, Twitter and Facebook. If you have an internet-enabled cell phone, Highlight HEALTH can be accessed via the mobile web.

Top 20 most popular articles

Here are the most popular articles for 2008 (top 20 based on the number of page views/number of days posted):

1. Grand Rounds 5.14 Holiday Edition
2. Metabolic Changes in Human Brain Evolution and Schizophrenia
3. Encephalon #58 – Decision Making
4. Potential Location of Autism Genes Identified
5. The New Placebo: Prescribing Positive Expectations with Real Drugs
6. 2008 Presidential Candidates on the Issues of Biomedical Research and Healthcare
7. Health Search and the Semantic Web
8. The Power of Gratitude to Cultivate Happiness
9. Neurodegenerative Disease and the Coming Epidemic
10. Chiropractic Adjustments and Artery Dissection: Is Your Neck in Safe Hands?
11. Viral-based Human Disease and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
12. New Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Feed
13. Closing Arguments on Big Tobacco, Boston Legal Style
14. The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports Molecular Characterization of Brain Tumors
15. Highlight HEALTH Goes Mobile
16. Gene Expression Can Predict the Survival of Lymphoma Patients
17. Health Highlights – October 7th, 2008
18. HelixGene Foundation to Ensure Responsible Reporting of Genomic Medicine
19. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #13 – Stand Up To Cancer
20. Overeating Fast Food Carbs Causes Signs of Liver Damage

Thank you and Best of Health in the coming year!