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New Grand Rounds - Food is Medicine

Dr. John La Puma hosts the Grand Rounds this week. Check it out. And thanks for pointing to my post, Dr. John.

Revolution Health invites Grand Rounds readers

As you can see, I haven't posted to Health 2.0 in a while. I've been working my heart out at Revolution Health, where along with Steve Case and others, we've been striving to change health care. We’re giving people the tools, information and support they need to actively manage and take control of their health and wellness.

We do this by attempting to answer (and solve) seemingly simple questions – Why do I have to fill out the same forms every time I go to a new doctor? Why are my medical records impossible to get a hold of? Why is it easier to find a restaurant than a doctor?

Note on food and nutrition: Given that this week's Grand Rounds focuses on food and nutrition, I'll mention that we're putting robust online tools in the hands of people who want to track their weight, BMI, eating habits, etc to reach their diet and weight goals, and empowering people to easily share and support each other along their way. These tools are just one example of dozens of things we're doing in the food and nutrition area.

Our first step in trying to meet this lofty goal is to launch a web site. Over time, it will have some of the best technologies, communities and resources assembled in one place. We’re in the testing phase right now and although the site is not fully public yet, we're inviting all readers of the Grand Rounds to try it in advance. We need your contributions and feedback to make this site truly great.

Here are a few things you can do:

• Register with Revolution Health by going to this invitation URL: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=ANkBrPNXrI.  (It should be simple to do, but if you are having problems of any kind, call us at 800-990-2892 or e-mail customercare@revolutionhealth.com).

• Rate your doctors. Rate the tools. Rate the stories.

• Try out some of our cool tools

• Launch a Revolution Health blog, or publish your health story

• Post a health question or respond to others

• Complete your profile so that we can further refine our personalization capabilities

Feel free to post this invitation link http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=ANkBrPNXrI on your blog if you'd like to invite your entire audience, or of course feel free to email your friends with the invite-link, and let them know they can in turn pass it on. Of course feel free to speak your mind on your blog and elsewhere about our efforts (keeping in mind we're still in our infancy).

Thanks again for your help!

.... it's a day after I posted the above, and this post made it into the Grand Rounds! This is my first time in, and it's very cool to make the cut. Reading the Grand Rounds, here are a few highlights from others that made it in:

Dr. John La Puma on "Food is medicine". Excerpt:

"Read how Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal health reporter (and Dr. John LDL cholesterol program patient) Tom Burton lowered LDL cholesterol with food alone, avoiding statins, specifically Crestor and Lipitor."

Suprisingly Health Foods. Dark chocolate is #1on this list. #5 is another surprising notable. Guess red wine doesn't make the cut :)

Drinking Olive Oil That's right, drinking olive oil, like a glass for breakfast, may be healthy. YUM (or maybe yikes). Whatever works.

Something fishy for your thoughts- how eating fish may help cure dementia.

Magic mushroom management-  teenager makes a psychedelic quiche and gets nursed back to sobriety. Quote:

... trying to guess-timate vomitus trajectories is a tricky and risky business and best delegated to new graduate nurses.

Flu = spew

The 60 pound pledge (there's actually a lot more to this particular post than the pledge to lose sixty pounds. Worth the read, and quite a surgery-visual as well)

Save the sharks (btw, this blog has some of the best pics I've seen on a blog anywhere). Snippet:

"Sharks are at the apex of the food chain and thus are not meant to be eaten. They are there for the balance. Humans are also at the apex of the food chain and do we condone eating each other?"

Tags: grand rounds, health, food, nutrition, Revolution Health, wellness, health care

digg - 'Manorexia' on the Rise: Experts Estimate 1 Million Men Affected

Have a look: digg - 'Manorexia' on the Rise: Experts Estimate 1 Million Men Affected.

Digg for donations

Check it out: digg - Digg-a-thon: A Penny Per Digg to American Cancer Society (Links to ACS).

Hard to believe, but fascinating...

digg - Ambien awakens persistent vegetative state victims

Sneaking in the nicotine

Just saw this at Digg--Tobacco Companies Raising Nicotine Dosage on the Sly since 1998.

100th Edition of the Grand Rounds

From the The Examining Room of Dr. Charles.

Grand Rounds - August 1

Inside Surgery hosts the Grand Rounds - Volume 2, No. 45, via Milliner's Dream

The long tail of healthcare

First time I've heard the "long tail" used to refer to diseases and conditions. Worth the read.

The fact and fiction of coma-recovery

Pure Pedantry : Background to the 20 year coma recovery. Worth the read. Jake Young gives you charts, comparisons and his take on how to distinguish patients in a "permanent vegetative state" versus patients in a "minimally conscious state," a difference that often makes all the difference when you're talking coma-recovery. Via DonorCycle's Grand Rounds.

Health Wonk Review

I'm sure everyone else out there who's clued into the health blogosphere was aware of this site, but not me... just discovered it.

Nursing Wiki Launches

Check it out. This joins the small but growing number of health related wikis. So far I've only found fluwiki and wikicancer. Anyone know of others?

Grand Rounds 2.41

Fourth of July Grand Rounds - brought to you by RangelMD. Starts off by showcasing Dr. Henochowicz's top 5 wish-list for health care:

1). Enact compulsory health insurance.
2). Promote primary care.
3). Fund the National Health Information Network.
4). Encourage consumerism.
5). Encourage physician involvement and leadership in health care policy.

What do you think of this list? What would be your top 5?

What's wrong with U.S. health care?

RangelMD is accepting submissions for 4th of July Grand Rounds. The subject is "what's wrong with health care in the U.S. and how can we fix it" Given the topic, I imagine the inbox will be flooded :)

Grand Rounds Vol 2, #38

The latest Grand Rounds at The Haversian Canal. Nice clean format of links. Sometimes the sheer volume of the Grand Rounds can be overwhelming, but this one cuts to the link-- very nice. Here's a sobering piece on the dark side of alternative medicine, although the author agrees that some therapies, such as acupuncture and hynosis, indeed have some evidence-based foundations.

Grand Carnival

Every health niche seems to justify it's own Grand Rounds. Not only is there the weekly general Grand Rounds, but there's a pediatric ground rounds, a radiology ground rounds, and probably a host of others I haven't encountered yet. Anyone out there have a directory of these? This goes hand in hand with the blog carnival concept.

Cows + Nuns = Vaccine

Well, not exactly, but check out the true story of cows, nuns and the cervical cancer vaccine at MedGadget.

Grand Rounds 2.37 | The Medical Blog Network

Health Voices' "Medical Blog Network" hosts the Grand Rounds. Btw, The Medical Blog Network at Health Voices is growing rapidly, adding 50 new medical bloggers in the last few weeks alone. Check out their upcoming medical-blogging conference in DC.

Pediatric Grand Rounds #4

Hosted at Anxiety and Depression