New Obesity Medications Offer Hope But Not a Panacea This week I am talking to Carolyn Jasik, MD, (@DrJasik) CMO for Omada Health, a virtual-first chronic care provider helping members make lasting changes to improve health and reduce care costs for organizations Excitement is growing around new GLP-1 receptor agonist medications for treating obesity, with […]
How to Outsmart Your Hungry Inner Couch Potato This week I am talking to Dr. Tim Church, Chief Medical Officer for Wondr Health (@WondrHealth) a company focused on Digital Behavior change especially focused on the obesity epidemic. Tim has spent a large part of his career focused on this area and as he puts it “bringing the […]
Haircut, and Would you Like Heart Checkup To? This week I am talking to Andrew Suggs, Co-Founder of Live-Chair (@livechairinc) – addressing healthcare disparities through the community of trusted barbers and barbershops (long the center of medicine and in particular surgery). The company started out providing scheduling and customer management tools to the many barbershops […]
Continuous Monitoring of Health So the opportunity to dive deep into glucose metabolism in my body with detail previously confined to laboratories was an exciting proposition. This especially true as I contemplated CES this coming week which has seen each year an ever-expanding Digital Health Pavilion with more companies and new solutions springing up. The […]
AI and Wearables Wearables are everywhere and like many technical terms the early entrants have become synonymous and part of the vocabulary Are you Fitbit enough? But in the corridors of healthcare systems and doctors’ offices, there’s less excitement about the penetration of these devices and a healthy skepticism for the value of tracking the […]
Dr Nick the Incrementalist discusses weight management The first steps to any healthy weight management program is data and weighing yourself. If you have scales at home use them and if not, there are other options for weighing yourself: Department stores, fitness centers, grocery stores, hospitals and clinics, hotels, pet stores, pharmacies, public restrooms, student […]
Today is Earth Day – an annual event designed to raise awareness of the environment and protection of our planet – this year the focus is on Ending Plastic Pollution Plastic Clean up from the Ocean People come together to celebrate this stunning planet and show support for protecting the environment – everything from simple […]
