Grand Rounds 5:12 — Healthcare Reform Q&A

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 9, 2008 |

“If Dr. Rob can inter­view San­ta, why can’t I inter­view a select group of health & med­ical blog­gers? They will have some good ideas to share”. So did Pres­i­­dent-elect Oba­ma came to real­ize a few days ago. After his peo­ple kind­ly con­tact­ed our peo­ple, we felt com­pelled to grant him open access to our col­lec­tive wisdom.…

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Grand Rounds: Briefing the Next US President

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 15, 2008 |

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US Pres­i­dent, Thank you for vis­it­ing Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of the best health and med­ical blog posts, in the midst of your very busy sched­ule. The health and med­ical blo­gos­phere would like to make sure you and your team take into account the issues out­lined below as you…

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Brain Fitness and Exercise in Japan

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 21, 2007 |

Fun arti­cle in the Wash­ing­ton Post: Aging Japan­ese Keep Their Minds Mov­ing “part of a broad range of men­tal acu­ity prod­ucts that are all the rage in Japan: books, toys, food and oth­er things, sold with the pledge that they can reen­er­gize aging brains.” “Ana­lysts said the cur­rent brain-train­ing trend began in 2004 and 2005…

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