Google Health Now Lets You Share Your Medical History With Loved Ones

Google has announced that it has launched a significant new feature, giving users the ability to share their medical records with designated family or close friends.
The general idea behind the feature is that oftentimes during emergencies family members may not know the details of your medical history, like medical allergies. Such information can be lifesaving, but sharing extremely personal medical information is not something that should be taken lightly. Google is taking lengthy measures to ensure the security of the data, associating invite links to specific Email addresses and allowing users to track who has viewed their records. All shared records are also read-only.

In my opinion if they can keep records safe from unwanted viewers i could see this being a very effective way of sharing important health information with family members and could end up saving many lives and finding a quicker diagnosis.

Here is the link:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/google-health-now-lets-you-share-your-medical-history-with-loved-ones/

Medpedia: a new, online health encyclopedia

Medpedia: a new, online health encyclopedia is the largest online collaborative health encylopedia is now up on the Web at http://medpedia.com/.

"The plan is to create pages for more than 30,000 medical conditions, more than 10,000 medications, thousands of medical procedure, and millions of medical facilities.
Contributors will come from medical schools -- Harvard, Stanford and the University of Michigan are apparently all on board -- schools of public health, and other health-related institutions."

Gaming addiction: a symptom hiding the real problem?

This article talks about how games can be a catalyst to certain health problems in individuals.
Quote from the article stats: "The games made the affects of these problems worse and gave the people something to use to escape their day-to-day existence but, if you removed the games completely, the root problems would still be there."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/gaming-addiction-a-symptom-hiding-the-real-problem.ars

Interesting article about cell phones and healthy relationships

This article talks about what words healthy couples use in their daily conversations. Shows a lot of other information in the article:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090123-instant-message-couples.html

Cancer survival affects online support

I thought this was interesting because it shows that cancer support groups statistically improve cancer patient’s health compared to those who do not take advantage of these social support groups. Here is the link:

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/11/22/Cancer_survival_affects_online_support/UPI-38181227334626/

Google Flu Trends?

This may be old news to some of you but Google has come up with a new program that will track what diseases are statistically increasing in your communities. Google Health has launched Google Flu Trends which is following outbreaks of the Flu in your community. Here is the link on the article:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_flu_trends_a_glimpse_in.php

CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against influenza. The flu vaccine protects against the three main flu strains that research indicates will cause the most illness during the flu season. And, the vaccine can protect against illness from similar flu viruses.

Two Aging Athletes Confront the Ultimate Opponent: Time

Here is an interesting article i found that will help the Aging Athletes Confront the Ultimate Opponent: Time. i found this article motivating those feeling like they are old of age can still play competitive sports with the best of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601869.html