Exercise is Medicine! Why are People not Buying into the Prescription?

People are people, but technology is not technology.

Ubiquitous computing is about more than having multiple computers in our environment; it is also about computers venturing into completely new environments. In this paper, we examine the impact of computers in the developing world and look at why most interventions to date have failed to address the key needs of the users and their context. Through an analysis of existing software design techni...

Buying into healthy blood vessels: exercise and aging.

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT YOU ARE the chief executive of a major pharmaceutical company. You know that: 1) cardiovascular disease is a major killer, and 2) worldwide increases in longevity and adoption of “Western” diets in the developing world will likely increase the number of individuals needing treatment for cardiovascular disease. You also know that the pathophysiological effects of cardiovascu...

medicinal plants and antioxidants: why they are not always beneficial?

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Why don't people exercise, even a little?

Why Does Academic Medicine Allow Ghostwriting? A Prescription for Reform

A book, paper, or speech that involves an author who is not given credit is considered ghostwritten, at least according to most dictionary definitions. This straightforward and seemingly commonsense definition has yet to be accepted within academic medicine. Over the past 15 years, the academic medical community has quietly tolerated the presence of ghostwriters in the medical literature, a pra...