By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Part 1 of How to be Wildly Popular focused on where I found inspiration for writing this healthy living post. Part 2 provides you with friendly simple tips to becoming wildly popular. So, you want to be popular? Who doesn’t (okay, there may be some people who really have no interest in being popular–that’s cool. To each his own). But, for those of you who have a little interest,…
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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Inspiration for writing I thought I’d share my latest post, The 3 Secrets to a Wildly Popular YOU, published on HuffingtonPost that appears in the Living News and Happiness section. Thanks to all my HuffPost readers for their Twitter ReTweets and comments. How to be Wildly Popular-Part 1 It’s amazing where inspiration comes from. It can come unexpectedly from anywhere at any time. I’ll admit it; writer’s block was…
Read More...Healthy Eating with ChefMD – Spectacular Meatloaf
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I’m still waiting for my friend, John La Puma, MD, ChefMD to make a house-call. He can leave his stethoscope at home; all he needs to bring is his culinary tools. I’m waiting for some first rate cooking lessons, and I’m holding John to his words when he says, “Gee…I’d make a house call for you, Barbara, any day.” I’m waiting… Meantime, while I’m waiting, I’m kicking up my…
Read More...Health Journalism: Have we reached new lows?
Guest post by Gary Schwitzer It doesn’t get much worse than this in health journalism; NY Daily News finds new lows By Gary Schwitzer [Original post published on Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview Blog, July 13, 2010 and reprinted with permission from Gary Schwitzer.] I know that many people just dismiss the New York Daily News, but you can’t dismiss the number of readers it has and the potential impact its stories may have on them –…
Read More...The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Wants Innovative Health Care Developers
Guest post by Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge–It’s On! By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt [Original post published on The Health Care Blog July 8, 2010, and reprinted with permission from Matthew Holt.] Today is the formal kick-off of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The challenge was first announced by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra on June 2 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting, and it’s partly a continuation…
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