by Bruce Brown | August 2, 2018 | General News, Health
You won’t find “Smartphone Addiction” in the DSM-5, the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM changes slowly, but that doesn’t mean that excessive new media...
by Bruce Brown | August 1, 2018 | General News, Health
Two out of every three adults in the U.S. have higher than recommended blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of the 150 million affected people, half have hypertension and the other half have prehypertension, which is...
by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2018 | General News, Health
News stories about telemedicine applications and collaborations have become so common in the past year it could be easy to assume that digitally-enabled remote care became a thing only recently, but that’s not the case. The CDC gave telemedicine top billing in...
by Bruce Brown | July 30, 2018 | General News, Health
Safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning is an essential cornerstone of public health. Without clean water, people get sick. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) works with other organizations such as the Pan American Health Organization...
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), approximately 26 million Americans — more than 8% of the population — suffer from asthma. A chronic disease that affects the airways in the lungs, asthma’s...
by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Text messaging, or texting, started with a “Merry Christmas” message sent to employees in 1992 by a Vodafone engineer, according to Mashable. After initial explosive growth, texting began to decline in 2009 and hit its nadir in 2012, BigFish PR wrote in...
