As Highlight HEALTH celebrates its’ second year promoting advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued readership.

Three websites make up the Highlight HEALTH Network:

• Highlight HEALTH
• Highlight HEALTH 2.0
• The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

Each of these sites has a different purpose. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we focus on evidence-based biomedical research to educate readers and empower patients (if you’re interested in contributing, please let us know). Highlight HEALTH 2.0, a group effort, follows the use of Web 2.0 in health and medicine. Lastly, the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is an online reference guide for reliable health and medical information.

There are more ways than ever to connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network, including email/RSS, Twitter and Facebook. If you have an internet-enabled cell phone, Highlight HEALTH can be accessed via the mobile web.

Top 20 most popular articles

Here are the most popular articles for 2008 (top 20 based on the number of page views/number of days posted):

1. Grand Rounds 5.14 Holiday Edition
2. Metabolic Changes in Human Brain Evolution and Schizophrenia
3. Encephalon #58 - Decision Making
4. Potential Location of Autism Genes Identified
5. The New Placebo: Prescribing Positive Expectations with Real Drugs
6. 2008 Presidential Candidates on the Issues of Biomedical Research and Healthcare
7. Health Search and the Semantic Web
8. The Power of Gratitude to Cultivate Happiness
9. Neurodegenerative Disease and the Coming Epidemic
10. Chiropractic Adjustments and Artery Dissection: Is Your Neck in Safe Hands?
11. Viral-based Human Disease and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
12. New Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Feed
13. Closing Arguments on Big Tobacco, Boston Legal Style
14. The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports Molecular Characterization of Brain Tumors
15. Highlight HEALTH Goes Mobile
16. Gene Expression Can Predict the Survival of Lymphoma Patients
17. Health Highlights - October 7th, 2008
18. HelixGene Foundation to Ensure Responsible Reporting of Genomic Medicine
19. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #13 - Stand Up To Cancer
20. Overeating Fast Food Carbs Causes Signs of Liver Damage

Thank you and Best of Health in the coming year!

It’s been almost a year since I introduced the Highlight HEALTH Network. The network is an aggregation of content from three sites:

• Highlight HEALTH
• Highlight HEALTH 2.0
• The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

There’s also a network webpage, Highlight HEALTH.net (.net as in network, creative isn’t it?), which displays recent content from each site. The Highlight HEALTH Network makes it easy to stay up-to-date with the latest articles and directory links, all from a single source.

Grab the new Highlight HEALTH Network feed

The Highlight HEALTH Network has a brand new RSS feed, so if you’re a subscriber, it’s time to update the address in your feedreader.

The feed now validates (no thanks to FeedBurner …) and I’ve tracked down the elusive double post bug that has plagued directory listings.

Subscribe by RSS or email:

There are a number of other ways to connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network. From RSS feeds to e-mail alerts to social networks, there’s bound to be a resource that works best for you. Don’t miss out on any of the great content on the Highlight HEALTH Network. Choose the resource(s) that work best for you and get connected today!

As 2007 comes to a close, I would like to thank you for your readership. Just over one year ago, I launched two websites, Highlight HEALTH and the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. Here at Highlight HEALTH, my goal was to write about biomedical research I found interesting and to make it easier for people to understand research findings, empowering them to have more productive discussions with their physicians and to make informed decisions about healthcare. The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is my endeavor to catalog and make available health-related websites I find to be informative and useful. More recently, I’ve also started writing about Web 2.0 in Health, Fitness and Medicine, and plan to publish a series of review articles on a number of health-focused social networks.

This past month, I started the Highlight HEALTH Network, an aggregation of content from both sites to allow readers to keep up with the latest articles on Highlight HEALTH and the newest additions to the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory, all from a single source.

Here are the most popular articles for 2007 (top 20 based on the number of page views/number of days posted):

1. The Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Dashboard Widget
2. Smoking Cessation Timeline: What Happens When You Quit
3. Dichloroacetate Not Ready for Therapeutic Use
4. The Highlight HEALTH Network
5. New Common Cold Virus Variant Deadly
6. Common Therapy for Prostate Cancer May Promote Metastasis
7. Overweight Kids and TV: An Advertising Epidemic
8. Saline Nasal Irrigation More Effective than Spray for Chronic Sinus Symptoms
9. Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.8
10. The Genetics of Panic Disorder
11. Smoking Duration vs. Intensity and the Impact on Lung Cancer Risk
12. Social Networks and Health - The Research and the Reviews
13. Quercetin
14. American Obesity Rate Levels Off
15. Biodegradable Polymers for Drug and Gene Delivery
16. Individual Genetics, Coffee Consumption, BRCA1 and Breast Cancer
17. The Flu, Your Health and the Importance of Vaccination
18. SCHIP Funding and Fiscal Irresponsibility
19. DNA Amplification by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
20. Sinus Congestion

Thank you and Best of Health in the coming year!