POSTS TAGGED AS wellness

Ford’s in-Car Health Monitoring

Is this “the car that cares,” or the Edsel of health care?  Notice in this piece rationalizing remarks like [MORE]

Energy Metabolism and Age-Related Degeneration

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in many serious diseases from diabetes and deafness at an early age, to multiple [MORE]

Biochemistry of Exercise

Everyone knows that a good diet and exercise promotes health and wellness, but the biochemistry involved remains vague.  Researchers [MORE]

Trends in Population Health

One implication of healthcare reform is that not-for-profit “community hospitals” will demonstrate a greater mission role by keeping people [MORE]

Home Grown Innovation at Cleveland Clinic

Many hospitals prefer innovations that derive from their own experience, and the ones that actually promote this do the [MORE]

Wristband Monitor

"UP" by Jawbone
Jawbone (San Francisco, CA), a maker of personal electronics and best known for its Bluetooth headsets, will [MORE]

24/7 BP Monitor

Monitoring Wristwatch
Sleep and Blood Pressure Have an Interesting Relationship. Normally, a person’s BP drops to its lowest [MORE]

“Quantified Self Confidence”

Basis Watch
This wristwatch-like band from Basis Technology (San Fransciso, CA) monitors heart rate, calories burned, physical activity and [MORE]

How Common Is Good Heart Health? Not Very

Nonsmoking, a BMI below 25, goal level exercise and a good diet, unmedicated cholesterol below 200, BP below 120/80, [MORE]

Hopkins’ Online Test for Dementia Risk

Neuron
Nearly everyone in the healthcare debate agrees that the heart of real reform is people taking greater responsibility for [MORE]

Free Wellness App Acts as Hub

There are hundreds of wellness-associated apps for smart phones and pads, and WellCom.org (San Diego, CA) has what might [MORE]

Walgreens’ “Take Care Health System”

Walgreens, which operates 370 workplace clinics, has been working with Intel for the past five years in developing a [MORE]

AT&T’s “ForHealth” Business, Scope and Products

Late last year, AT&T launched its new telemedicine/telehealth division called “For Health,” focusing on wireless and cloud-based networks for [MORE]

Online Student Health and Wellness

It’s still a little surprising to find that telecommunication companies have healthcare services divisions, but now that’s also the [MORE]