Tag Archive : health

Our chairs seem to be the new lean-mean killer machines. And the money we spent buying those clean running shoes, the brand new gym clothes and the determination to lay off those extra pounds are all goals. We live in an age of fads. Ten new are already making their way across social media pages.

Europe’s largest-ever digital health hackathon is taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Thursday 20 February – Sunday 23 February 2020. Join us as hundreds of health professionals, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, designers and technologists will spend 75 hours realizing the future of health and social care. Open to everyone from unlikely innovators to seasoned founders; whether you…

Marc is an 11-year-old boy who was seen in our hospital’s Urgent Care Clinic after he was referred there from the Emergency Department (ED). His parents had taken him thereafter he told them he wanted to kill himself.  It wasn’t the first time Marc had told his parents he wanted to die. He said the…

A number of recent long-term studies have linked greater optimism to a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease and other chronic ailments and to fostering “exceptional longevity.” My husband and I were psychological opposites. I’ve always seen the glass as half-full; to him it was half-empty. That difference, research findings suggest, is likely why I…