Healthy Mind Heart Body

Category: insights

  • Pain Avoidance

    All beings must experience suffering and pain at some point in their lives. – Buddha ~ Dukkha Do not avoid pain. Your effort would be misplaced. Pain and suffering are inevitable. Choose your pain wisely. — Geoffrey Hale Everyone wants to live a care-free, happy and easy life… What pain do you want? What are…

  • Patient Portal – The features within

    By this time everyone in the health IT industry knows what patient portals are all about. Once known as a mere tool to facilitate communication, the web based patient portals have become a secure platform for information exchange amongst providers and patients. My previous blogs have talked about the features of Electronic Medical Record (EMR)…

  • Patient Portal –More than Mere Communication

    Although the health IT industry is experiencing new technological breakthroughs with every passing day, there are certain people with limited horizons that tend to overshadow the true potential of such innovations. Patient portals could be one of the finest examples to quote here. Over time, physicians have been keen in adopting Electronic Medical Records (EMR),…

  • Two more men cured of HIV

    Two men from Boston and New York City were diagnosed with HIV and cancer. They endured multiple rounds of treatment for lymphoma, stem cell treatments and received bone marrow transplants while continuing their antiretroviral therapy (ART). Two years and three and a half years later, both men are still seemingly uninfected. The researchers are cautious…

  • Go Greek or Go Home

    NPR recently released a story on the Greek yogurt identity crisis happening in our grocery aisles and shopping carts. With the help of cornstarch, agar agar and/or milk protein concentrate, imposters have started to invade our dairy shelves. We’ve trusted the USDA and FDA to provide us with correct information on nutrition labels and assure…

  • Does your brain burn more calories when you think really hard?

    In most cases, deep thought and concentration do not burn tons more calories than routine brain activity. But if we think we’ve worn out our brains, we will feel exhausted anyways. I’m thoroughly disappointed. All this time aggressively thinking while sitting on my butt in my cubicle doing nothing, no wonder I don’t look like…