TDWI in the News
TDWI is quoted in Julie's Health Club in the Chicago Tribune
The Silver Lining - B. Klepper and D. C. Kibbe (with comment by D. Michaeli)
Does the Internet Make us Stupid? -Dov Michaeli
Memories of My Mother's Chicken Soup - Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D
A feminist perspective on the breast cancer screening controversy
Blowing up doctors (literally) - Patricia Salber
Will Business Force Reform Back to Drawing Board? - B. Klepper & D. C. Kibbe
What Did Picasso Know that we Didn't? - Dov Michaeli
The Testosterone Divide - Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D
What Memories are Made of - Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D
The Fun Theory: Piano Stairs
Is this Spider a Liberal Democrat? - Dov Michaeli
TDWI Blogger Bestermann Hits the Big Time
You Are What You Don't Eat - Dov Michaeli
TDWI Blogger Called a Radical - Pat Salber
A New Use for an Eye Tooth - Pat Salber
Self-Control in Decision-making - The Buck Stops in Your Head - Dov Michaeli
Wii Bowling - A New Way to Exercise - Pat Salber
Money is Honey, but Health is Wealth - Pat Salber
Online Competition for Improved Global Nutrition - Pat Salber
The Wonderful Diversity of Mankind - Pat Salber
The Little Giant of Indonesia - Pat Salber
We're baack! TDWI redux - Pat Salber
From Description to Action: The Future of Health 2.0 Tools - Brian Klepper
Is Meaningful (or any kind of) Health Care Reform Possible - Brian Klepper
New News
CNN Senior Correspondent
HIAWATHA, Iowa (CNN) -- As Dr. Jennifer Lickteig examines patients at the Linn Community Care Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she's also earning money from a second career that has nothing to do with medicine.
Dr. Jennifer Lickteig started her online clothing business while taking time off from medicine to raise her family.
Lickteig runs a clothing store on eBay, where she's a "Gold PowerSeller," ranking among the top 1½ percent of merchants on the online marketplace.
The 35-year-old family practitioner says she earned $120,000 last year on eBay, more than she did practicing medicine.
"It's just kind of this thrill," she said. "It think it's the thrill of having built up this business and just done it myself. I don't have to get an MBA. I don't have to have a storefront."
As health care reform threatens to shake up the business of medicine, recruiting firms promote alternatives for doctors at pharmaceutical, biotechnology, insurance and investment banking firms. But eBay?
Lickteig was juggling medicine with mothering her two boys when she became pregnant with twin girls. Once Natalie and Melanie arrived, Lickteig had to take time out from her practice.
Between feeding and changing her genetically identical daughters, Lickteig was online, discovering that she had the genes of a businesswoman -- a trait that had been hiding behind her medical degree.
Senate Completes Health Care Debate
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Finance Committee completed debate on proposed health care legislation early Friday.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says the bill "will improve the lives of every American."
The Finance Committee was the last congressional panel to consider a health care reform bill. It finished its work at 2:18 a.m. and plans to vote next week, after the bill's final language has been made public and the Congressional Budget Office has provided final cost figures.
Unlike several health care reform proposals championed by House Democrats, the version that emerged from the Senate Finance Committee does not contain the public option -- it would not create a government program to provide health insurance to all Americans.
President Obama hailed the committee's work as "the culmination of tireless efforts" by it and four other committees and members of Congress on health care reform.
SALT LAKE CITY -- It was a moment six years in the making. Elizabeth Smart took the stand at U.S. District Court Thursday during a competency hearing for her accused kidnapper Brian David Mitchell.
For two hours, the 21-year-old recounted the details from the nine months she was held in captivity.
She testified Brian David Mitchell came into her bedroom on the night of June 5, 2002, held a knife to her throat and told her to get up quietly, or he'd kill her and her family.
Sebelius: There's more than enough H1N1 vaccine to go around
There will be more than enough doses of the H1N1 vaccine to go around in the United States, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday.
She said that at least 6 million doses of the vaccine will be available in the United States during the first week of October.
"The notion that because target groups are supposed to get it first, that there won't be enough, that we're leaving people behind, needs to be corrected," Sebelius said at a White House briefing.
There "will be plenty of vaccine for everyone who wants it," she said. She said 250 million doses have been purchased, and "that will be plenty."
Most of the initial doses available in October will be FluMist nasal spray. It is approved only for healthy individuals between the ages of 2 and 49. Pregnant women are not allowed to get this type of vaccine because it contains a live virus.
Don't spare the rod and maybe spoil the child?
Parents who spare the rod just might end up with smarter kids. Two new studies suggest that children who are spanked have lower IQs than children who aren't, regardless of where they live.
H1N1 Flu Advice for parents from the CD
As a parent you know how hard it can be for children to understand stressful situations, such as the current situation with the flu. Stressful situations often cause children to worry and have many questions as to why it is happening and how it can be fixed. It is important to remember to take care of your health and well-being as well as the health of your children. If you cope with a stressful situation well, your children will also cope better. Your confidence and calm attitude will help your children ease their worries and feel safe and secure. Focus on what your child can do to avid getting the flu...