Category Archives: Current Affairs

Health Food for Thought – the Google ThinkHealth 2011

Each year, Google holds a meeting of health care marketers in New York called ThinkHealth.  This year’s will be held on Thursday, September 15.  The meetings are a great way to see some of the latest thinking from Google and … Continue reading

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Growing Role of Social Media Among Policymakers

It is perhaps hard to believe that only four years ago, the following sentence would have made no sense to anyone at all.  ”I follow you on Twitter.”  Many of us, though not all of us, would have been bewildered … Continue reading

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Tap, Tap, Tap … Waiting for an Alzheimer’s Test? A Spinal Tap Test Emerges.

 A headline that has been both craved and feared appeared yesterday:  "Spinal-Fluid Test is Found to Predict Alzheimer's" The New York Times reports that the Archives of Neurology is today publishing a study on a test for Alzheimer's that is … Continue reading

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Yes They Did! Now What? Opportunities in the Wake of Health Care Reform

 Last night health care reform finally was passed by a vote of 219 to 212 and President Obama will sign it into law.  An enormous amount of unnecessary drama was injected into the process, and that will take some time … Continue reading

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Most Recent Videos from CDC on the Influenza Outbreak

Here are three videos produced within the past few days by CDC. They are also available at the CDC You Tube Channel and the EyeonFDA YouTube Channel under the Public Health Videos Playlist. Share this:

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