TED Talks: Calibrate outlook on time to achieve a happier life

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.

CNN video: What food makes you overeat?

What food makes you overeat? Fat, sugar and salt.

Related:

"Food is risky. You can choke on a hot dog, be poisoned by a pizza or die slowly from years of eating too much" - The Economist, 2014 http://buff.ly/1k0lKBY

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Golimumab helps rheumatoid arthritis who had previously "failed" one or more TNF inhibitors. http://bit.ly/3pPPb9
  
  
• Interferon gamma-1b did not improve survival for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis http://bit.ly/14ilVj
  
  
• Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners. Condom use essential for prevention http://bit.ly/HgvUO
  
  
• Lancet Clinical Picture: Man develops hypersomnolence with daily sleep duration of 20 h after nail-gun brain injury http://bit.ly/DJLgt
  
  
• Strenuous Exercise Linked to Memory Loss in Women http://bit.ly/phgWc
  
  
• Testosterone patch and growth hormone injection improve body composition and muscle performance in older men http://bit.ly/Upnkv
  
  
• PubMed abstract: "Unusual transmission route of Lymphogranuloma venereum" http://bit.ly/15JuTs via http://bit.ly/3tvhM

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source/links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Tweets About Social Media

From my Twitter account:

• 9 First Step Goals for New Bloggers http://bit.ly/8OVFK
  
  
• Video: Go behind the scenes of a TEDTalk http://bit.ly/AjBGr
  
  
• In case you are not sure: tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - therefore always go to the original source/links, etc...
  
  
• Tips for webmasters: when talking about endorsements, link to them. Please see top right sidebar of http://allergycases.org for an example
  
  
• Social media is part of communication skills a doctor should have but it is more difficult from psychological perspective because there is no physical contact: no eye contact or voice communication, etc.
  
  
• Videos: "Which TV Doc Interviewed Obama Best?" http://bit.ly/ZcHXh via @Berci - What does "best" mean in this case?

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Google Health allows patients to upload scanned paper documents and advanced directives

Google Encourages Patients to Store Advance Directives in Google Health. Google Health allows patients to upload scanned paper documents to their profile for safe storage and easy sharing http://bit.ly/HYr18

Alternative way to present today's Google Health announcement: "Google Wants To Know Your Final Wishes" http://bit.ly/Dgu4t - Sounds ominous.


Screenshot of Google Health

Before you upload your scanned documents to Google Health, please consider the strength of your password and password recovery procedures.

"Systems we now use for password recovery are open to social hacking, and that’s what got the Twitter folks in trouble" http://bit.ly/ruYaA

Related:
Would you like to see Dr. Google or Dr. Microsoft for your personal health records?
Google Health (Personal Health Record) Launches for Everybody Today, 2008.
Image source: Doctors Using Google by Philipp Lenssen, used with permission.