Weekly Newsletter: May 20, 2009

Weekly Newsletter: May 20, 2009

Use healthandsharing.com as your social network site for health and lifestyle issues

This week’s articles help to reveal how patients can benefit from the collaborative relationships between physicians and industry:

1: Dr. Fessler gives an insider’s view to the financial payments between physicians and industry. Are they really a conflict of interest? Are they fair? You decide. Looking at issues often discussed in the media are especially interesting when you look at them from the perspective of a world famous neurosurgeon.  We will continue this series throughout the week with the opinion of another “expert” who discussed the hypocrisy of the entire COI issue. You can read this week’s article at: http://www.healthandsharing.com/9/newsarticledetail

2: Meet Michael. He had minimally invasive spinal surgery to remove a tumor from his spine. When you are faced with the biggest crisis of your life it’s comforting to know that your surgeon is a pioneer on improving the outcomes of the particular surgery that you need. Read about Michael’s experience. http://www.healthandsharing.com/7/roundtablestorydetail

3: College Kids taking Ritalin to help them study?. I had never even heard of this until Dr. Gollogly uncovered the story. Check out our health tips section. http://www.healthandsharing.com/healthtiparchive.htm

4: Mandy Polk, our resident fitness guru, has set up a new CIRCLE inside the Health and Sharing site.  It’s called ‘Training for Life with Mandy Polk.” Check it out and join. She set up the CIRCLE for all registered members of health and sharing.

http://www.healthandsharing.com/circle/46/circle_detail

5: Register today and get your health circle set up. It’s free. As a new site, we are looking for people like you to be leaders of custom health communities or “circles.” Please think about how you can use the healthandsharing.com site to facilitate communication activities with your current clubs. Let us know how we can help.

6: We are trying out a new section called ‘Ask Dr. G” A link to this feature can be found in the footer of the site. Just post your health questions and Dr. Gollogly will answer them for you. http://www.healthandsharing.com/askDrG.htm

7. Follow our updates on twitter. http://twitter.com/jserb

Have a great week.

See you in the site,

Jill and Sohrab

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