Highlight HEALTH

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