Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
In the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard oncologist Jerome Groopman and his colleague Pamela Hartzband talk about how the Internet is providing broader access to information, including the kind that has traditionally been available only to physicians. In doing so, the Internet may be changing the patient-doctor relationship: As physicians, [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies. Wired Science So the answer is yes. Earthquakes, like all other intensely stressful situations, have the potential to cause [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
A new, albeit very small, study suggests that a short period of fasting prior to chemotherapy may protect healthy cells and reduce the side effects associated with chemotherapy. Valter Longo and his colleagues at the University of Southern California published these findings in a case series report in December in the journal Aging. They studied [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
There is an emerging body of evidence on using sound waves (ultrasound) to raise temperature levels in tumors and dangerous blood clots in order to shrink or eliminate them. The technology company InSightec is at the forefront of experimenting with this modality in the treatment of certain types of cancers and the type of brain [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
A new editorial in Nature highlights a growing consensus among economists and policy-makers that “governments’ reliance on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main proxy for social well-being and progress is leading the world in wrong and unsustainable directions.” For example, healthcare spending in the U.S., representing about 17% of our GDP, may be inflating [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
News Events 1. #iranelection 2. Swine Flu 3. Gaza 4. Iran 5. Tehran 6. #swineflu 7. AIG 8. #uksnow 9. Earth Hour 10. #inaug09 People 1. Michael Jackson 2. Susan Boyle 3. Adam Lambert 4. Kobe (Bryant) 5. Chris Brown 6. Chuck Norris 7. Joe Wilson 8. Tiger Woods 9. Christian Bale 10. A-Rod (Alex [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Hello Health has been an amazing journey that continues to make us all proud.
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a case about a 66 year-old man with heart disease and an enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Once these aneurysms grow beyond a certain size, they may rupture and place one at the risk of bleeding to death. What I found unique about this case [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
