AIDS on Film: Jay Corcoran
VIDEO: Documentary filmmaker Jay Corcoran captures the impact of AIDS on peoples lives. Corcoran’s three films; Life and Death on the A-List, Undetectable, and most recently, Rock Bottom, track the evolution of the AIDS epidemic since 1993.
Knowledge, Standards, and the Healthcare Crisis
What can be done to drive continuous improvements in care safety, quality and efficiency, which would enable people to remain healthy longer, manage chronic conditions more effectively, and receive the best possible healthcare delivered in the safest and most economical way? What will it take to foster widespread knowledge creation, use and evolution in our healthcare system? Why must developing a national health record system be so expensive? Aren’t there any easy, inexpensive ways to do it?
Talk Tank: Sparking Conversations Between Women and Marketers
VIDEO: Talk Tank is a Women’s health forum that sparks conversations and dialogue between women and marketers. Women want to participate in a forum that includes other women, to hear their experiences, and to learn from them. Talk Tank provides the opportunity to do so.
Talk Tank: A Women’s Health Discussion Forum
VIDEO: Talk Tank brings 30 diverse women together to discuss a variety of health issues. Hosted by Kelley Connors and Wendy Borow-Johnson.
The Skinny on America’s Obesity Problem with Mark Gold
VIDEO: ScribeMedia.Org’s Coco Ballantyne interviews Mark Gold, professor and chief of Addiction Medicine at the McKnight Brain Institute, about the growing obesity problem facing the nation.
Reporting AIDS - Youth & AIDS: Hope’s Voice
VIDEO: John Mikytuck visits a photo shoot for a new ad campaign “Does HIV Look Like Me?” sponsored by Hope’s Voice. There he talks with several young HIV positive people about the effect of the disease and their message of prevention through awareness.
Integrating Medical and Wellness Programs
Medicine and wellness do not necessarily go hand-in-hand in today’s medical environment. Health care providers and patients are beginning to realize that medicine’s mechanistic approach to healing is far from ideal. The average length of the patient-doctor exchange hovers between four and eight minutes, enough time to write a prescription but not enough time for […]
Informing and empowering the modern consumer
In this era of “personal responsibility,” today’s modern consumer faces daunting challenges. In this post I discuss some of the things consumers need to become informed and empowered, so they make good decisions and act responsibly when it comes to selecting the best treatments and adhering to them.
It’s obvious that consumers need valid, understandable information […]
AIDS: Prevention with Positives
40,000 new cases of HIV are transmitted each year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over the last five years, public health officials have been challenged to reduce that amount by 50 percent.
To meet that goal, a new and unique strategy is redefining the idea of […]
Medical Spas
Wendy Borow-Johnson, President of The Healthy Living Channel, sat down with Kathy Gruttadauria, show manager of the International Spa Show in New York to talk about some of the most important trends in the spa industry. The biggest trend is the interest in wellness and the medical spa field. Another trend in the market is […]
