Here's a piece of electronics that you buy and then hope you never have to use - a home defibrillator. We bought one last year - and I just heard that they used one at the Museum of Flight in September to resuscitate a visitor.

It's designed to be easy to use in an emergency - complete with audio instructions during use.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator (AED): Health & Personal Care

Curing those with a 17-hour-per-day internet habit.

Quoted: In South Korea, which boasts of its wired society, a camp to treat cyberspace addiction may be a first.

Quoted: Walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods have sidewalks leading to nearby shops, restaurants or other destinations. They are built in a way that makes it easier to walk and get to buses and trains. Many are older neighborhoods, located in more urban areas.

WebMD has 40M/month now. Adam Bosworth at Google is also working on Health-related products.

Revolution Health is now Alex ranked at 144. The site doesn't grab me right away I something I need. I note it's targetted primarily at women ("specifically designed with the Family’s Chief Medical Officer - women and other caregivers - in mind") and there's a Mom Central component here too. Is it too fragmented?

Quoted: Stephen M. Case, who plans to unveil RevolutionHealth.com, says the time is ripe for a dominant health care brand.
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“There is a big opportunity to create the most trusted brand in health,” Mr. Case said in a phone interview late last week.

Choosy mothers, choose Jiff (now with 100% less salmonella than competing brands).

I just watched the Frontline on methamphetamine abuse again. A really good show that examines the whole distribution system that enables meth production.

A striking feature of the show is the physical deterioration of most heavy meth users. They never explain why this is so prevalent. Are they just so busy getting high that they neglect their health?

This page explains some of the health problems that chronic meth users face - many of them seem to stem from meth's effect of restricting the blood flow to various parts of the body.

My aunt was on Good Morning America on Oct 11th, 2006. There's a video clip of the spot here (it was not shown on the west coast, for some reason).

Quoted: Pain, Itching Part of Rare Breast Cancer

I was not aware that the Hutch is an international center for HIV vaccine trials. Learned about this last week at their Science Spectrum event.

Quoted: Hutchinson Center scientists lead the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), the world's largest international effort to find a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS — the world's worst epidemic. This National Institutes of Health-funded network involves researchers from 27 cities on four continents. In collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc., the HVTN has begun a collaborative study to test a promising new vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS. The trial will be conducted at both Merck and HVTN clinical trial sites in North and South America, the Caribbean and Australia. In collaboration with the University of Washington, Hutchinson Center researchers direct the network's Seattle area vaccine trial unit, at which volunteers participate in HIV vaccine trials.

Health-oriented search engine. Presented at Alliance of Angels today. They claim about 30K uniques per month now - but they just launched this search engine as a public beta last Friday.

Quoted: The premier health search engine that provides high quality, trusted, and personalized health information.