A Campus Visit
I had not visited the campus for quite some time. My eight years of service as a member of the College of Engineering advisory board ended a few years ago when I was engulfed in my doctoral journey. The visit this week was to lay the groundwork for a lecture on campus this Fall about […]
Sequencing the Genome of An Unborn Baby
One of the topics in Health Attitude that may be the most profound is genomics. The following post is an example. Beginning in 1990, more than 200 scientists collaborated on a $3-billion project to sequence the roughly 3 billion bases of human DNA. Between 2002 and 2008 the cost to perform the sequencing gradually declined from $100 million to […]
Molecular-level Health Testing With the iPhone
With the power of a supercomputer, the iPhone is going to be the host for a wide range of healthcare-related consumer devices and related apps. The latest comes from a San Diego startup named Cue. The company has developed a compact consumer-oriented device that can detect five biological conditions at a molecular level. This is not a […]
Consumer Driven Healthcare
In Health Attitude: Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare, I wrote about how people’s attitudes about healthcare are shifting and they are accepting more responsibility for their health. People also are collecting data related to their health. A study about migraine headaches published in Neurology more than a dozen years ago established the principle that […]
Sirius XM Radio Interview About Health Attitude
leftThe Sunday night interview with Mark Walsh and Jonathan Aberman on Sirius XM Progress Channel 127 was a pleasure. They both asked good questions and gave me the opportunity to explain what Health Attitude is about. You can play the 15 minute interview below. Read about Mark and Jonathan and their Left Jab Radio program here. […]
