5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Health
Simple lifestyle changes boost your health–and your happiness By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Health care isn’t just what happens between you and your medical professionals. It’s how you care for yourself and maintain your health and well-being. Here are five ways to change your life in a way that will not only make you healthier, but happier too. 1. Connect with friends–face-to-face Spending time with your best friends is proven to be good for…
Read More...After 40 Years, Patients Still Crave Attention and Respect
The Doctor/Patient Relationship By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA What do patients want? Despite the technological promises of the Health 2.0 movement, in some ways it’s really no different today than it was forty years ago. An article that appeared in Time Magazine on May 13, 1966 says: Today, Americans get far better medical care than ever before; as for the rest [of the doctor-patient relationship], they are often lucky to get as much as…
Read More...Swine Flu Vs. Soap: Our bet’s on the soap
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA It’s always frightening to learn of outbreaks that the CDC labels as a “public health emergency”. While the swine flu may be new to us in name, it’s not new to us in what it is at its core, how we have to prepare ourselves for it, should it arrive in our area, and what we can do to protect ourselves. The reason we now see it in humans…
Read More...Alltop Features Healthin30.com
All the Top Health News Plus So Much More! By Barbara Ficarra I am thrilled that Healthin30.com is now featured on Alltop.com. I remember first learning about Alltop from a facebook friend who posted the link to Alltop on her facebook page. I was curious so I clicked on the link and landed on a neat site with large font that reads: “Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. We update the stories…
Read More...CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, MD Receives Health Communications Achievement Award
NAMC Honors Sanjay Gupta, MD at the 29th Annual AMA Medical Communications Conference By Barbara Ficarra Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN, is recognized for his outstanding contributions in health communications by the National Association of Medical Communicators (NAMC). Dr. Gupta graciously accepted the first health communications achievement award at the 29th Annual American Medical Association’s Medical Communications Conference on April 1, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Santa…
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