About Highlight HEALTH

Healthcare decisions are increasingly being made today with evidence from scientific research studies — evidence-based research — rather than relying on expert opinion or clinical experience alone. Indeed, today’s paradigm is science-based medicine, replacing the traditional medical paradigm based on authority.

The Internet offers widespread access to health information. While much of the information is valuable, the internet also allows rapid and widespread distribution of false and misleading information. We’re here to balance that with health information that’s credible and reliable. Highlight HEALTH focuses on biomedical research news reporting for the digital age.

Our mission

The mission of Highlight HEALTH is to:

  • Promote advances in biomedical research.
  • Advocate for health literacy for improving self-management in health.
  • Empower patients to have more productive discussions with their physicians and make informed decisions about healthcare.

Highlight HEALTH is a member of the Highlight HEALTH Network and is intended to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her existing physician.

What you can expect from us

If you’re like us, you don’t have time to sift through 3 — 4 posts a day or 20+ articles a week from one website. On Highlight HEALTH, you can expect 3 — 5 weekly articles on biomedical research that are intelligent and engaging, or which link directly to other resources. Every article published will provide source documentation and links to scientific abstracts and research papers (when openly available).

We’ll report on the research, provide background and analysis, and explain how the results affect you, the healthcare consumer.

We encourage readers to participate by commenting on articles and interacting with other commentators. Share posts you find interesting and informative. Feel free to email us comments, suggestions or ideas.

About the writers

Highlight HEALTH has three regularly contributing writers:

We occasionally publish articles submitted to us by guest writers. If you have something that you think might be of interest to our readers, feel free to email us your article for consideration.

Updated: February 14th, 2010