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Mark Boguski, M.D., Ph.D. is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and is a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, "a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health" and in which professional health care providers encourage "empowered patients" and value them as full partners in managing their health and wellness.

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Atheist Christopher Hitchens Used “The Language of God” To Battle His Cancer

English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens died today from cancer of the esophagus. He was diagnosed with this tumor about 17 months ago. What did Christopher Hitchens and Steve Jobs have in common? Both men used DNA to try to discover and treat the gene mutations that were driving their cancers. Jobs had his DNA [...]

Posted In Literature, Politics, Religion

It’s Constipation Awareness Month - How To Tell If You’re Constipated and What To Do About It

‘Tis the Season for irregular bowel habits — December is Constipation Awareness Month. Think about it. The period between Thanksgiving and New Years is probably the time of year when our diets change the most. Seasonal holiday parties and social gatherings provide many opportunities for overeating, for eating at irregular times and consuming a variety [...]

Posted In Diets and Weight Loss, Eating Disorders, Entertainment

Steve Jobs’ Cancer Timeline and Eating Disorder: An Infographic

Walter Isaacson‘s new biography of Steve Jobshas now filled in some of the missing medical details of Jobs’ 8-year battle with cancer. The three chapters describing different phases of his illness are: Chapter 35 Round One: Memento Mori (“Remember you will die”) Chapter 37 Round Two: The Cancer Recurs Chapter 41 Round Three: The Twilight [...]

Posted In Business, Eating Disorders, Mental Health

Did “Alternative Medicine” Kill Steve Jobs?

When they first discovered the tumor in his pancreas in October 2003, his doctors told him an immediate operation was necessary, and could lead to a cure. As first reported by Peter Elkind in 2008, Jobs decided to think different, declined surgery, and explored alternative medicine treatments for his disease. Nine months later, in July 2004, the tumor had grown. Only then would [...]

Posted In Business, Media, Religion

Angelina Jolie Feeds Her Kids Bugs!

Remember drinking “bug juice” at summer camp? We knew it wasn’t literally bug juice, right? Well Angenlina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s brood actually do eat bugs, but they’re crunchy not juicy. While shooting her Louis Vuitton ad in Cambodia, Angelina revealed that she and her kids love to eat insects, specifically crickets. “It’s their favorite [...]

Posted In Diets and Weight Loss, Entertainment

WANTED: Charming, aggressive, carefree people who are good at looking out for Number 1

If our headline describes you, you could be a psychopath. Really. Our title is actually part of a classified newspaper ad that researchers used to recruit potential psychopaths from non-jailed populations. The goal of the research was to study the differences between “successful” and “unsuccessful psychopaths.” Successful psychopaths are people that who would flunk The Psychopath [...]

Posted In Business, CSI-Forensics-Toxicology, Literature, Mental Health, Politics, Religion

Hot Bodies by Us

This time last year, Us Weekly did its annual “bikini season” issue that focused on “Diets That Work!” for the stars with the “hottest bodies.” This year the theme is pretty much the same Hot Bodies 2011: Stars share their favorite diet & toning secrets to get sexy fast. But most of the featured stars [...]

Posted In Diets and Weight Loss

Do you know who broke into my car last night? Reward offered

When Michele was heading off to the gym this morning, she discovered that Mark’s car had been broken into and his 11-inch MacBook Air had been stolen along with the other contents of his briefcase. The serial number on the MacBook Air is C02DQ4KRDJDL in case you see one for sale on eBay. A similar [...]

Posted In CSI-Forensics-Toxicology

Wow! Scientology & Nude Psychotherapy in New Book by Goats’ Author Ronson

Do you remember Tom Cruise‘s rant against psychiatry on the Today Show with Matt Lauer in 2007? Mr. Cruise, a member of the Church of Scientology, has been so consistently outspoken against psychiatry that the International Association of Scientology awarded him the Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004, in part for “eradicating the very thought [...]

Posted In Business, Mental Health, Religion

Who is Mr. Farthing and what does he have to do with Kate Middleton’s fertility?

Today, the magazine In Touch Weekly published a non-story entitled Will & Kate’s Baby Heartbreak. The article, based on anonymous “royal sources,” claims that stepmother Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall told a friend that “health complications from Kate’s adolescence raised red flags that may have an impact on her ability to conceive.” The article goes [...]

Posted In Historical, Media