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The biggest question waiting to be answered this weekend is 'who will win the Super Bowl, Patriots or?¦

Before the smart phone or mobile health apps registered as medical devices, the use of the humble email in communications between GPs and their patients has long been considered as a controversial topic.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal Europe, opponents worry that doctors aren??t able to properly gauge the health of their patients by reading their emails. They say important signals can be missed such as facial expressions, tone of their voice or body language?¦

As someone who lost her dog this week to an aggressive, rapid and sudden onset of cancer, I read with interest an article in today??s New York Times ?? covered in both the Well blog and in the?¦

Paula Deen, host of the Food Network??s ??Paula??s Best Dishes?? confirmed this week that she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago, though she has not stopped cooking with the buttery, Southern style for which she is famous.

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Check out this article from Rip Empson of Techcrunch.com on the booming mobile health space and what??s ahead for 2012. Mr. Empson brings up an interesting  point that with the emergency of mobile health and technology improving daily lives, we have to be aware that some technologies will not be allowed to expand and unfortunately the ??most helpful and innovative?¦

In light of current debate around the need for a revision in CE Mark approvals on medical devices, I wonder where the line falls with regards to Mobile apps aimed at healthcare professionals??¦

The definition of PR, I feel, is currently ever-changing. For each campaign I work on, the aims, objectives and strategy, slightly adapt my opinion of what my work achieves and therefore what definition I would use to encapsulate it.

Obviously I am not alone when trying to define PR as the Public Relations?¦

The New York Times reported that hospital employees recognize and report only one out of seven errors that harm Medicare patients while they are hospitalized based on a newly released federal report.  Yet even after hospitals investigate preventable injuries and infections that have been accounted, they rarely change their practices to?¦

My parents divorced when I was 10 years old and while each remarried 20+ years ago, I often wonder about the impact this life-changing event had or will continue to have on our health and well-being ?? physically, spiritually and mentally ?? in the future. As a mom to two young daughters, the memories of those times, that pain, are what drive me to nurture my own marriage so my children don??t have to live through some of the hardship my brother and I did. That??s why I read with great interest?¦

As mHealth continues to gain momentum, I wanted to share an example of how the technologies we use every day can help sick patients all over the world.

An interesting case study generated attention recently after a letter was published in the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock describing the use of a Webcam, Skype and an iPhone 4 to conduct a remote pulmonary ultrasound in Scotland. The technologies allowed a?¦