Fighting for your life

StandFit: Fighting Sedentary Work Life

This paper presents StandFit a mobile application aimed at encouraging people to lead non-sedentary lifestyles at the workplace, through simple exercises that can be executed during breaks. Results from a 3-week field evaluation demonstrated that adoption was encouraged by the users’ perception of the app as having positive impact on their health. Issues related to the intrusiveness of the noti...

Fighting prostate cancer with radium-223--not your Madame's isotope.

As each year ushers in new and innovative survivalenhancing treatments for castration-resistant prostate cancer with bone metastases, patients and their physicians have a sense of empowerment associated with this growing therapeutic arsenal.1-5 Nonetheless, nearly 30,000 men still die from prostate cancer every year, and many have debilitating illness from osseous involvement. For this latter g...

Economic credentialing: your money or your life!

The economic overhaul of health care in America is restructuring the business of medicine, and with it the relationship between physician and patient. Previously accustomed to thinking primarily about the best interests of each patient, the physician now finds this traditional loyalty in conflict with competing concerns, including those of government, business, and insurers who watch with alarm...

Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

Margaret McCartney: Fighting for the NHS's moral life.

Contracts are about to be rewritten, for GPs in England and for consultants. Junior doctors are getting a new one. Yawning gaps exist in out-of-hours GP and junior hospital rotas. Emergency department waits are increasing, as are complaints to the General Medical Council, and morale is disintegrating. Is this the NHS’s decline and fall? Doctors used to have much autonomy, leading to innovation,...