Coco Ballantyne

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The Achilles Track Club

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Ivonne Mosquera is a blind runner with the Achilles Track Club, a team devoted to encouraging and supporting disabled athletes. The marathon runner talks about her experiences training and competing in marathons and other events.

The Living Brain - An Interview with Norman Doidge

AUDIO: Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.

HealthDot Pharma Report - June 1, 2007

In Episode III of the HealthDot Pharma Report we focus on black market medicines that lead to death, Mylan Laboratories’ acquisition of Merck’s generics unit, the (over) medication of US children and wrap it all up with a trip to Las Vegas and a conversation with Pharma Blogger John Mack.
Blackmarket Poisons
As has been reported, diethylene […]

Paper Kills: The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative

ScribeMedia’s Peter Cervieri recently sat down with Microsoft’s Health Care Industry Director, Bill Crounse, to talk about healthcare information technology and general industry trends. According to Crounse, America is “the worst of the worst” among industrialized nations in healthcare IT, but there are some promising initiatives on the horizon.
One of the most exciting developments is […]