iPhone app for Depression

From FierceMobileHealthcare: A Texas emergency physician has developed a questionnaire for the iPhone and iPod Touch to help people screen themselves and loved ones for depression. “When I was in the ER, I had seen a lot of psychiatric patients,” Dr. Harvey Castro told the Flower Mound Leader newspaper. “I saw many cases where they [...]

Friends: the secret to longer life

Many of my medical colleagues agree that the more you learn about medicine, the less hope you place in its ability to solve people’s real health concerns. At the same time, we are rediscovering the power of  non-medical, merely natural everyday things. Science is resurrecting ordinary life from its perhaps recently neglected past. Friendship is a good [...]

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