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Certainly you have heard of the ALS Ice Bucket challenge by now.  Many people have been roped into it and notable celebrities have participated including: Conan O’Brien, Larry Page, Adam Levine, Vince McMahon, and many others. But what is the ALS Ice Bucket challenge? It is an activity which involves dumping a bucket of ice water onto one’s head or donating money to an ALS Association. A participant will post a video to social media and nominate other participants stating that they have 24 hours to either dump a bucket of ice water on their heads or donate $100 to … Continue reading  

Acupuncture has become more mainstream in recent years. It was reported that in 2007 3.1 million tried acupuncture compared to 2002 when only approximately 2 million people reportedly tried it.. Acupuncture reportedly originated from ancient China but its evolutions there are unclear. It made its great exposure in the West in 1971, when NYT reporter James Reston received acupuncture for post-operative pain. Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupoints along the skin of the body. Practitioners utilize approximately five to twenty needles inserted in various places. The needles vary in length between .5 to 5 inches. These are usually disposable … Continue reading  

We all know that fast food is bad, but can it affect your children too? A recent study has confirmed that a bad diet can affect your children in ways that we previously had not considered. The study was published in Nutrition Journal and takes a look at how Western diets can affect people’s immune function. We already know that it can lead to a variety of health conditions which include problems such as: increased inflammation, reduced control of infection, increased rates of cancer, and increased risk for allergic and auto-inflammatory diseases. These poor choices can get “encoded” into the … Continue reading  

No doubt you have heard of apps such as Uber and Lyft. They’re both mobile apps that connect passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services. These have both picked up in popularity and have reached every major city in the United States. It’s easy. You click a button that you want a cab and then one shows up in as quickly as a few minutes. What if you could do this with a doctor? This is just what a few companies are working on developing. Having a doctor make house calls was commonplace over a century ago, … Continue reading  

Everyone wants the perfect selfie right? Now there is an app for that. There is a free iOS app called Beauty Mirror which reshapes an image of your face in real-time which would show you what certain features of your face would look like if they were shaped differently. There are four looks or fourteen filters that adjust parts of your face to make you look “better”. The creators are working with fashion and cosmetic labels to bring this to more consumers. What do you think about an app such as this? Would this compel you to have certain procedures … Continue reading  

Wearable tech in medicine is a cool idea. We’ve already got google glass and many physicians are using them in hospitals. Everyone will soon see them in hospitals and clinics worldwide. But what if you could harness the power of wearable monitoring yourself? We’ve seen it before in futuristic sci-fi movies where you can see your heart rate and respiration rate on a virtual heads up display which you can only see. Google announced on Tuesday that they would partner with Novartis to develop a wearable contact lens that could monitor blood sugar levels. The future is closer than you … Continue reading  

A new TV series has popped up in the realm of plastic surgery. The plastic surgeons Paul Nassif and Terry Dubrow plan to reverse failed medical procedures. These patients range from a woman with massive breast implants to the man who attempted to look like Justin Bieber. Dubrow states that there is a lot of bad plastic surgery out there that can be changed. He wants to make it known that they are making transformations from ugly to swan. Those that can’t be helped are the plastic surgery junkies. Those who have already had so much plastic surgery that they … Continue reading  

Selfies are becoming more and more ubiquitous among today’s society. The efforts made to stop this are far and few. Those that have tried have failed valiantly. Now the selfie trend has transitioned into another realm. Imagine you just received a 3.9 carat princess-cut, platinum engagement ring with a diamond band. But your hand looks scaly and there are sunspots dotting it. Maybe the skin is not tight in the right spots, it’s a bit wrinkly.  You can’t post a picture on instagram or facebook with your diamond engagement ring and have wrinkles or sunspots. This is exactly what Marie … Continue reading