Author: Walter Jessen

Walter Jessen

Profile: Walter Jessen is the founder, editor and head writer of Highlight HEALTH. A PhD-trained cancer neurobiologist and bioinformatician, Walter is currently studying peripheral nerve tumor development. He is interested in how the human genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals to regulate mechanisms that control neurological health and disease.

Website: http://www.walterjessen.com/

Articles by Walter Jessen
  1. Social Media in Health and Medicine: Medlibs Round 2.7
  2. The Quick Guide to Healthy Living
  3. MedLibs Round 2.7 Call for Submissions
  4. HON Foundation Launches New Certificate, Study on Internet Use
  5. A Look Back at 50 Years of Birth Control
  6. An Inside Look at NIH Peer Review
  7. The 2010 NF Conference – Connecting the Public with the Research
  8. 10 Things to be Aware of on NF Awareness Day
  9. Top 10 Facts Women Should Know About Fibroids
  10. World Health Day: 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives
  11. World TB Day 2010: On the Move Against Tuberculosis
  12. Where You Live Matters to Your Health
  13. Health Highlights – March 11th, 2010
  14. The National Health Observances Toolkit
  15. St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy Provides $5M in Medication
  16. How to Properly Dispose of Medication
  17. Health Highlights – January 29th, 2010
  18. Refusing Immunizations Increases Risk of Chickenpox in Children
  19. The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2009 – The Year in Review
  20. Medpedia Now Includes News & Analysis, Alerts, Q&A
  21. You Can Help Improve the Health of America: Healthy People 2020
  22. President Obama: Prioritize Science and Health in 2011
  23. Medical Journal Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Other Issues
  24. Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8
  25. Safety and Distribution of the H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
  26. Health Highlights – October 30th, 2009
  27. Details of Critically Ill Patients with H1N1 in Mexico and Canada
  28. Book Review: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
  29. Chromosome Telomeres and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
  30. What You Need to Know About the H1N1 Vaccine
  31. Health Highlights – September 22nd, 2009
  32. H1N1 Vaccine Study Summaries: Single Dose Provides Protection
  33. Health Highlights – September 8th, 2009
  34. Need For Less Sleep Associated with Gene Mutation
  35. NIH to Hold Conference on Family History
  36. Health Highlights – August 7th, 2009
  37. The Spectrum Health Value Study: Insured vs. Uninsured
  38. Don’t Get Burned With Your Sunscreen
  39. Medpedia: Reliable Crowdsourcing of Health and Medical Information
  40. Francis Collins Nominated to Head NIH
  41. Physician Failure to Report Abnormal Test Results to Patients
  42. MicroRNAs in Human Health and Disease
  43. Health Highlights – June 18th, 2009
  44. Recovery Act Drives Record Number of NIH Grant Applications
  45. Biomedical Research Rock Stars
  46. New Genes Associated with Blood Pressure and Hypertension
  47. The Spectrum Health Value Study
  48. Healthcare Spending After the Recession
  49. Put Your Hands Together and Fight the Flu
  50. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #21 – National Cancer Research Month
  51. Science and the Swine Flu
  52. Health Highlights – April 13th, 2009
  53. Brain Toniq Review: The Science Behind the Think Drink
  54. Following the Biomedical and Healthcare Blogosphere
  55. Combating Foodborne Illness: The Food Safety Modernization Act
  56. Meat Consumption and Mortality Risk
  57. A New Era for Stem Cell Research and Scientific Integrity
  58. Health Highlights – March 6th, 2009
  59. Lifetime Immunity From the Flu
  60. U.S. Encourages Evidence-based Medicine in Economic Stimulus
  61. Support Biomedical Research in the Economic Stimulus Package
  62. Health Highlights – February 10th, 2009
  63. Clearing Up Concerns Over Vicks VapoRub
  64. Private Access: Interview with Robert Shelton
  65. Lack of Sleep Increases Susceptibility to the Common Cold
  66. Read Highlight HEALTH In Your Inbox
  67. I.O.U.S.A. One Nation Under Stress and In Debt
  68. Health Highlights – January 6th, 2009
  69. The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2008 – The Year in Review
  70. Top Health Search Engines of 2008
  71. Metabolic Changes in Human Brain Evolution and Schizophrenia
  72. Grand Rounds 5.14 Holiday Edition
  73. The Power of Gratitude to Cultivate Happiness
  74. Neurodegenerative Disease and the Coming Epidemic
  75. Gene Expression Can Predict the Survival of Lymphoma Patients
  76. Potential Location of Autism Genes Identified
  77. New Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Feed
  78. Health Search and the Semantic Web
  79. Encephalon #58 – Decision Making
  80. The New Placebo: Prescribing Positive Expectations with Real Drugs
  81. 2008 Presidential Candidates on the Issues of Biomedical Research and Healthcare
  82. Highlight HEALTH Goes Mobile
  83. Viral-based Human Disease and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
  84. Health Highlights – October 7th, 2008
  85. NIH Increases Support for High-risk Large-impact Biomedical Research
  86. HelixGene Foundation to Ensure Responsible Reporting of Genomic Medicine
  87. Closing Arguments on Big Tobacco, Boston Legal Style
  88. The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports Molecular Characterization of Brain Tumors
  89. 9rules for Highlight HEALTH
  90. This is Where the End of Cancer Begins – Stand Up To Cancer
  91. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #13 – Stand Up To Cancer
  92. Processed Food Makers Cut Corners As Prices Rise
  93. Join the Movement and Stand Up To Cancer
  94. The Promise of Stem Cells to Repair the Heart
  95. Health Highlights – August 5th, 2008
  96. Mapping Connections in the Human Brain
  97. Living Life to its Fullest: The Song of Randy Pausch
  98. Increased Coffee Consumption Associated with Lower Risk of Liver Cancer
  99. Did You Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables Today?
  100. Health Highlights – July 10th, 2008
  101. Exactly What are Stem Cells?
  102. Warfarin Dosing Accuracy and Genomic Medicine: A Helix Health CliniCast
  103. The Upside of High Food Prices
  104. Seven Ways to Connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network
  105. Neurofibromatosis: From Genes to Complications to Treatments
  106. Health Highlights – June 9th, 2008
  107. More Education Decreases the Risk of Death
  108. Detection of Colorectal Cancer Using a Blood-based, Six-Gene Biomarker Set
  109. Gene Genie #32 – Googling the Genie
  110. Genomic Medicine: An Educational Resource from Helix Health
  111. Remembering Lunch Can Help Reduce the Desire to Snack
  112. Tired? You May Not Be Getting Enough Sleep
  113. Health Highlights – May 6th, 2008
  114. Improve Your Financial Health, Reduce Stress and Help Save the Planet
  115. The Kanzius Machine: A Future Alternative to Chemotherapy?
  116. The Last Lecture – How to Live Your Childhood Dreams
  117. Funding of Childhood Cancer, NF Research in Jeopardy
  118. Nirvana in the Right Hemisphere: A Stroke of Insight
  119. Flat Funding of Biomedical Research: The Threat to America’s Health
  120. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #7
  121. Health Highlights – March 3rd, 2008
  122. More Steps for Open Access
  123. Searching for Health Information Online Dangerous
  124. Overeating Fast Food Carbs Causes Signs of Liver Damage
  125. ScienceCures: Today’s Science, Tomorrow’s Cures
  126. Living Healthy Isn’t Cost Saving, It’s Cost Effective
  127. Presenting Highlight HEALTH 2.0
  128. Chiropractic Adjustments and Artery Dissection: Is Your Neck in Safe Hands?
  129. Top 6 Most Important Cancer Advances of 2007
  130. Health Highlights – January 14, 2008
  131. Lack of Health Insurance Increases Risk of Cancer Death
  132. The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2007 – The Year in Review
  133. The Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Dashboard Widget
  134. The Highlight HEALTH Network
  135. The Genetics of Panic Disorder
  136. DNA Amplification by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
  137. Health Highlights – December 10th, 2007
  138. American Obesity Rate Levels Off
  139. Social Networks and Health – The Research and the Reviews
  140. World AIDS Day
  141. Saline Nasal Irrigation More Effective than Spray for Chronic Sinus Symptoms
  142. New Common Cold Virus Variant Deadly
  143. Tryptophan, Trust and the Thanksgiving Turkey
  144. The Link Between Biology and Energy
  145. QuitWinLive – The Great American Smokeout
  146. Common Therapy for Prostate Cancer May Promote Metastasis
  147. Merck HIV Vaccine Increases Risk of HIV Infection
  148. Elsevier’s Approaches to Public Access of Biomedical and Cancer Research
  149. The Flu, Your Health and the Importance of Vaccination
  150. Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting Launches Official Icons
  151. Smoking Duration vs. Intensity and the Impact on Lung Cancer Risk
  152. Health Highlights – October 23rd, 2007
  153. Individual Genetics, Coffee Consumption, BRCA1 and Breast Cancer
  154. Biodegradable Polymers for Drug and Gene Delivery
  155. Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services
  156. Of Mice, Men and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
  157. Overweight Kids and TV: An Advertising Epidemic
  158. Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program
  159. Health Highlights – September 30th, 2007
  160. Consortium to Identify Genetic Markers that Predict Drug-related Serious Adverse Events
  161. Treating Cancer with Personalized Medicine
  162. Bill in Senate to Expand Public Access to Taxpayer-funded Research
  163. 10 Reasons to List Your Site in the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory
  164. Novel Gene Suppresses Tumor Growth in Multiple Cancers
  165. Health Highlights – September 10th, 2007
  166. Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis
  167. Irreversible Gene Expression Changes From Smoking
  168. Smoking Cessation Timeline: What Happens When You Quit
  169. Healthy Fast Food Not So Healthy
  170. Bitter Coffee, Better Health?
  171. Health Highlights – August 21st, 2007
  172. Spinal Muscular Atrophy Legislation Update
  173. Discredited Stem Cells Created by Virgin Birth
  174. Mitosis and Meiosis
  175. SCHIP Funding and Fiscal Irresponsibility
  176. Health Highlights – August 9th, 2007
  177. Websites Advertising and Selling Prescription Drugs Increase by 70%
  178. What You Believe Can Kill You
  179. Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.8
  180. Physician Profiling
  181. The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is Now HONcode Accredited
  182. Healthcare Bloggers Code of Ethics
  183. Lawmakers Debate Funding Children’s Health Insurance
  184. Spinal Muscular Atrophy Legislation to be Introduced in Congress
  185. Health Highlights – July 10th, 2007
  186. The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory
  187. Healthy Tips for the Fourth of July
  188. Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psychological Problems in Children
  189. Medicexchange: A Medical Imaging Resource
  190. Health Highlights – June 26th, 2007
  191. Highlight HEALTH Summer Survival Guide
  192. Healthcare Costs and the Looming U.S. Budget Crisis
  193. Health Highlights – June 16th, 2007
  194. Neurofibromatosis and The Children’s Tumor Foundation
  195. Tumor Suppressors and Oncogenes
  196. Health Highlights – June 1st, 2007
  197. Quercetin Boosts Immunity and Helps Maintain Mental Performance
  198. The Medical Blogosphere and the State of Healthcare Blogging
  199. In Memorandum
  200. Quercetin
  201. Alternative Ethanol Fuel Won’t Improve Future Air Quality
  202. 2007: The Year of the Personalized Genomics
  203. Alternative to Dichloroacetate
  204. Highlight HEALTH is Now HONcode Accredited
  205. Healthcare Self-Management Suggestions for e-Patients
  206. FDA Attempting to Regulate Dietary Supplements
  207. Polyphenols
  208. Earth Day – A Call for Action on Climate Change
  209. The Trust and Credibility of Healthcare Blogs
  210. Discovery Setting It’s Sites On Green
  211. Web 3.0 and Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine
  212. Pharmacy Errors – Avoid Prescription Dispensing Mistakes
  213. An Inconvenient Financial Truth – Healthcare Costs Endanger U.S. Financial Stability
  214. Antibiotics Overprescribed for Sinus Infections
  215. Study Showing Antioxidant Vitamins Increase Mortality Flawed
  216. Clinical Trials
  217. Top 10 Places Cold and Flu Germs Hide
  218. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
  219. Study Questions Ability of Garlic to Lower LDL Cholesterol
  220. Vitamin C
  221. Caffeine May Prevent Heart Disease in the Elderly
  222. Highlight HEALTH Website Improvements
  223. Peanut Butter Recalled Due to Salmonella Outbreak
  224. The Best Way to Stay Healthy and Avoid Getting Sick
  225. Dichloroacetate Not Ready for Therapeutic Use
  226. Sinus Congestion
  227. Cancer Prevention
  228. Updated Rates of the Most Common Neurological Disorders
  229. Vitamin B
  230. Health Benefits of Bananas
  231. The Glycemic Index
  232. Decrease in US Cancer Deaths
  233. Amino Acids
  234. America’s Health Rankings
  235. Vitamin A
  236. Vitamins
  237. Amniotic Stem Cell Lines May Hold a Potential for Therapy
  238. Merck Focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Drugs
  239. Alfalfa
  240. Welcome to Highlight HEALTH
  241. The Definition of Health