HeartMath is a finalist for the 2009 ABBY award. The ABBY award is given each year by Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL). ABL members share with each other proven and innovative approaches for growing their businesses.
HeartMath is one of nine organizations chosen this year for Innovations in Healthcare. The HeartMath health intervention programs and emWave® [...]

The following is a response from Congressman Tim Waltz:
Thank you for contacting me regarding potential funding for family planning services in H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. I appreciate hearing from you.
Health care costs continue to rise rapidly and too many Minnesotans are going without the coverage they need. As Congress [...]

This topic definately needs more research and some real studies behind it. However, if found to have merit, it wouldn’t be the first time a “cure” was found to be worse than the disease.
That being said… I have my doubts.

Tomosynthesis made a big splash in the media about two years ago and again about 8 months ago.  This new system is able to create an image of a breast without the painful interaction of the old mammos and with higher levels of detail and image quality than what digital (MRI) mammo can provide.

Panel discussion focused on Women in Technology (WIT) program and how its innovative partnership approach, focused on Information Technology and business planning, has created one of the most succ…

Men and Women’s health practices are different.  Everyone understands that.  However we haven’t necessarily undertood that the Information Technology advancements around medicine may need to be different by gender.
In an attempt to battle heart disease in women, Martin Merorial Health System has implmented a new EKG system specifically for women:
Women will receive a gender-specific EKG [...]

We love to sing the praises of technology.  But what happens when technology gets in the way of eons of evolution?  This topic from the University of California TV discusses the problems with Technology in the birthing room.
On one hand, the survival rate of children and mothers has skyrocketed in the past 100 years.  On [...]

Quick and short update to the Women’s Health section here:  http://healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/womens-health/