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Tales of the Medical-Industrial Complex, Part I 8 Dec 2011 | 02:00 am
Noted university scientist lands $20m government grant to study link between an unmodifiable human trait and survival. Scientist finds a borderline significant correlation, but only in tall females w...
The Rise and Fall of The Tone Deaf Entrepreneur 29 Nov 2011 | 02:12 am
40 million people have no health insurance, 20 million kids live in poverty, the obesity epidemic remains unchecked…and The Tone Deaf Entrepreneur releases THIS? Noted VC firm invests $10m in company...
Wellcoin Coming Soon 1 Nov 2011 | 05:31 pm
Dear Pizaazz Readers-Thanks for stopping by! I haven’t had time post much lately because I’m head-down launching a startup called Wellcoin. It’s in the consumer health space, and it’s based on a trem...
Wellcoin Coming Soon 2 Sep 2011 | 01:31 am
Dear Pizaazz Readers-Thanks for stopping by! Recently, I haven’t had time post regularly because I’ve been busy launching a startup company called Wellcoin. It’s in the consumer health space, and it’...
Positive Health III: Well-Being, Fitness and Survival 18 Aug 2011 | 12:10 am
Positive Health, a breakthrough concept developed by Martin Seligman, encourages us to promote positive health assets—things like optimism, connectedness, a stable marriage and so forth—because they ...
Father of the Bride Speech: #LaffelKaufman11 16 Aug 2011 | 12:10 am
Ladies and gents, I’m Glenn Laffel, the father of the bride. On behalf of my wife Lori and Mindy and Roy Kaufman, I welcome you to our celebration of Nikki & Ben’s wedding. Many of you have come a lon...
Positive Health III: Well-Being, Fitness and Survival 11 Aug 2011 | 05:10 pm
Martin Seligman is the originator of an increasingly mainstream theory of health and behavior known as Positive Health. His theory suggests that we should cultivate and maintain ‘positive health asset...
Optimism and the Risk of Stroke 11 Aug 2011 | 12:10 am
Way back in 1946, the chartering documents for a new agency of the UN—the World Health Organization—defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the ab...
Positive Health and the Heart 9 Aug 2011 | 05:10 pm
For centuries, health providers have focused on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. This time-honored paradigm has generated phenomenal advances in medicine, especially during the last...
IPAB: Fix It, Don’t Repeal It 9 Aug 2011 | 09:40 am
In recent weeks, several Democrats and some health reform advocates including the AMA have joined Republicans in calling for a repeal of provisions in the new health law that create the Independent Pa...
