Guest Post by Vandana Bhide, MD Greeks who live on the Island of Crete have significantly less heart disease and cancer than Americans. Research studies suggest it is the Mediterranean diet that may give Cretans their health advantage. The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and nuts such as almonds and walnuts. It has been found to be associated with less risk of recurrent heart attacks than people who followed the…
Read More...Women’s Fitness: Simple Moves to get you Fit and Toned at the Office or at Home
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA My good friend works at a major company in NYC and she’s fortunate since she’s able to hit the gym on her lunch hour. If you have a job that allows you the time to go to the gym, that’s great. Not everyone is that fortunate. As women we have so many responsibilities and we’re so busy. Trying to juggle work, family and friends can be a struggle and…
Read More...The Patient, Square in the Middle of Doctors’ Blind Spot
Guest Post By Alan Greene, MD Participatory Medicine and the e-Patient Right before our eyes there’s a dark hole in what we see. Not only don’t we see some of what’s right in front of our face, but we don’t even notice the gap. Our illusion of a seamless visual world is so strong that scientists used to think that the spot where our optic nerve enters the back of each eye gave us our…
Read More...How the Nursing Shortage Affects YOU
Tips on how to help yourself, and our hardworking nurses Guest Post by Deborah O’Leary As the health care reform debate ebbs and flows, and then ebbs some more, you may not be thinking very much about the nursing shortage, and how it could possibly affect you. In fact, in the current economic climate, when unemployment seems high and many hospitals seem to actually to be cutting back, you may not have realized that there…
Read More...Huffingtonpost Readers Comment on Heart Attack Post
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I recently posted a blog, “Do You Know the Signs of a Real Life Heart Attack, Not the Hollywood Version?” on Huffingtonpost and I thought I would share a few comments that the blog received from Huffingtonpost readers. Thank you to the HuffPo readers for their comments and thanks to those readers for re-tweeting the blog on Twitter. Here are a few comments from the HuffPo readers as well…
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