quote for the day
Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.
baby boomers & the net
from Information Week
Web 2.0 Summit: Baby-Boomer Civilians Are Coo-Coo For Craigslist:
and
Business Spending On Mobile Data Set To Surge
Healthcare in the Digital Age
A hospital impact blog post, Healthcare Complexity: The elephant in the room references and article that “despite all the good intentions of high-tech folks like us and our reliance and devotion to our digital tools, some of the most basic differences between groups of people continue to predict who does well and who does not when it comes to health care for older people.”…
several medical blog links
Dr. Val and The Voice of Reason has a post of several medical blog links.
We have another bumper crop of advice, tips, and stories from our cohort of medical bloggers here at Revolution Health….
The one that really caught my eye:
About 59% of parents with overweight children said that they didn’t realize that their children weighed too much. Dr. Jim Hill explains the psychology behind this.
Epigenetics
A couple of days ago I watched Nova’s TV program on epigenetics -
Our lifestyles and environment can change the way our genes are expressed, leading even identical twins to become distinct as they age.
Epigenetics (wikipedia):
Epigenetics is a term in biology used today to refer to features such as chromatin and DNA modifications that are stable over rounds of cell division but do not involve changes in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism.[1] These epigenetic changes play a role in the process of cellular differentiation, allowing cells to stably maintain different characteristics despite containing the same genomic material. Epigenetic features are inherited when cells divide despite a lack of change in the DNA sequence itself and, although most of these features are considered dynamic over the course of development in multicellular organisms, some epigenetic features show transgenerational inheritance and are inherited from one generation to the next.
That was one of the more fascinating aspects - how the environment of the grandparent at key points in their maturation affected the health of the grandchildren.
The program is online. Click the link in the first sentence of this post.
