health
DO-NO-HARM: A PATIENT ADVOCATE’S CODE
Can big data, AI and advanced manufacturing like 3D printing deliver innovative, safer and more effective treatments?
A Female Insurance Broker in Switzerland
There is a lot to think about when moving to another country and insurance is only one of them. Not only are there all the different insurance companies and options to consider, but also most of the time there is a language barrier to deal with.
Helping Patients Around the World Own Their Health
Backpack Health brings together the pharmaceutical industry and rare disease foundations to truly empower their patients and families affected with rare and chronic conditions.
How to make health news interesting — without overselling the claims
Findings from larger studies repeated over a long period of time are more robust than those from small, single studies. Providing more easily decoded news is a step in the right direction.
Grandma’s Way: How pleasurable eating, real, wholesome, yummy food can defy stress levels, weight issues, lack of energy and low sex drive.
Danna Levy Hoffmann, founder of Organilicious, is a leading health and lifestyle coach and an expert on living a nourishing lifestyle. Unlike her competitors, her solution doesn’t involve dieting or deprivation, instead she focuses on how to engage in pleasurable eating, real, wholesome, yummy food .
Anger linked to illness in old age
Older people are happier. When following people over a ten-year period, positive emotional experiences are shown to increase with age, peaking at 64 and never returning to the levels observed in the average young adult.
Type 2 diabetes: losing even a small amount of weight may lower heart disease risk
People who lost at least 5% of their weight in the year after they were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes had a 48% lower risk of cardiovascular disease after ten years, compared with people who kept the same weight.
Screen time for children: the WHO’s extreme new approach may do little to curb obesity
aim to help parents make healthy choices for their families, suggesting that parents should consider four key questions: is screen time controlled? Does screen use interfere with what your family wants to do? Does screen use interfere with sleep? And, are you able to control snacking during screen time?
Where you live in your 20s affects when you retire – here’s how
For some, early retirement can be a positive life change which means they can afford to stop working. But for others, early retirement is a result of poor health or unemployment, which can eat into savings and widen inequalities among older people.
Does cannabis have medicinal benefits?
"Cannabis is a natural resource, owned by everyone, everyone should reap the benefit, Socially, Economically, Environmentally, and Medically." Dr Carol Coombes OBE, UK
Burnout: Are you at risk?
“There is a better and more holistic way to practice medicine or being an entrepreneur, one that keeps your sanity and your vitality intact.” Uwe Dockhorn