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More than information, we provide wisdom and decision making tools.
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Healthnewsreview allows Internet sites and other electronic services to profit from its in-depth knowledge of scientific and health issues for targeted news delivery. Healthnewsreview allows businesses to profit from its in-depth knowledge of specialized sectors and markets, providing unique, hard-to-find data and analysis.
Staff
Dr. Edward Siguel, MD, PhD. Sr. Editor/writer. Dr. Siguel attends professional conferences and trade shows to gather new information. He speaks with authors of research or opinion papers, reviews their data and methods, and otherwise seeks to validate the information presented.
We also rely on a vast network of contacts that send us information and comments about new discoveries, and help us identify studies that have substantial merit vs. those with potential flaws.
We focus on topics where we have adequate expertise to understand what is said at a level comparable to the author. This means we review the experimental design, measurement techniques and statistical analysis. We seek to decipher the underlying mathematical model and evaluate its reliability/predictability (that is, how much of the dependent variable is predicted by the independent variables or how accurately the model describes the data).
Our mission
We promote efficient and effective system changes and healthy behaviors by creating education programs to prolong life and increase well being. We evaluate strategies for diagnosis and treatment and provide guidelines to prevent disease and maintain health, increase longevity, increase physical stamina and emotional status, and deliver and use health care services effectively.
We seek to improve the quality of life and well-being of patients affected by chronic disease. We provide patients and their families access to diagnosis and treatment guidelines and explain how to make the best informed decision, enabling patients to take control of their health through self-education.
Examples of topics and our position on them
We write articles on these matters, review books, and provide articles for health content providers and other media.
Essential fats. Humans need essential fats. Optimal intake and utilization of essential fats is critical for optimal body function. A measure of the body's status are the absolute and relative levels of essential fats in plasma, RBCs and tissues. See essentialfats.com
Suboptimal essential fat regulation is a major contributory factor in most diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease.
When humans do not have optimal levels of essential fats, human membranes work inefficiently/ineffectively. As a regulatory mechanism, the body makes cholesterol and monounsaturated fatty acids to compensate for the lack of essential fats. This means that it is more important to regulate essential fats than cholesterol or other fats. Moreover, because excessive calories are stored in the body mostly as saturated fatty acids, excessive calories disrupt optimal essential fat regulation. Controlling excessive caloric intake and body weight is critical to optimal essential fat regulation (meaning being slim is one of the most important factors to prevent cardiovascular disease).
Low fat diets can be counterproductive when they replace foods with essential fats with foods so low in fat that they have far fewer essential fats (calorie for calorie). This means that, calorie for calorie, natural foods that contain essential fats such as lean meats (steak), chicken, fish and eggs (with yolks) are healthier than foods that contain practically no essential fats (such as highly processed carbohydrates, pastas, cookies).
Trans fatty acids are one of many different types of fatty acids outside the fatty acids recognized as needed by the body (cis saturated, monounsatured and polyunsaturated fatty acids). Although poorly known, there are many fatty acids that may have no necessary body function. In addition to trans fatty acids, humans have branch fatty acids, a wide range of isomers, etc. These fatty acids come from bacteria, food processing, fatty acids found in natural plants or animals, etc. They are usually found in very small quantities in the body. We do not know whether these fatty acids play some important role, and it is practically impossible to eliminate them. High levels of certain types of trans fatty acids associated with food processing have been associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
One of our goals is to review the role of different types of fatty acids in health and disease, and identify optimal intake of fatty acids, design healthier foods, evaluate diagnostic and treatment approaches using different types of fats.
We seek to identify key factors that contribute to Prostate and Breast cancer. Our articles will review nutritional, environment, hormonal and other factors that increase/decrease the risk of cancer.
Our articles describe means to provide health care under alternative assumptions, such as improving life expectancy or disease outcomes, or lowering costs, etc.
Evaluating diagnosis and treatment involves decision making under uncertainty. We provide an anlysis of choices, risks and benefits.
Biotechnology and health care are major driving forces in the economy and the stock market. We evaluate investments and the probability of success of new diagnosis or treatment approaches. We provide information on risk, volatility, validity and reliability, effectiveness and efficiency of health care options.
Regulatory policy. Any system has rules. Even "free markets" have rules. The rules can be implicit or explicit. They can be created or mandated by governments, large corporations, consumers, etc. We seek to identify policies for optimal rule making, for improving government and regulatory policies.
Nature of our reports
We have been quoted by leading news media, including CNN, CBS Dateline, local and national TV, National Public Radio, syndicated radio news, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Time magazine, Newsweek, the Boston Herald, Self magazine, Allure, Longevity magazine, Vegetarian Times, Family Circle, American Health, Natural Health Journal, Delicious magazine, Natural Food Merchandising, Nutrition Post, Business Week, Your Health, Modern Medicine, and others in Latin America (i.e., la Razon, Noticias, Pagina 12) and Europe.
Examples of web sites that have licensed our content include:
- AdvanceRX
- Arrow Corporation/familymeds
- Asthma and Allergy/breathingzone.com
- AZfamily
- Beliefnet
- Biosaurus.com
- BrainyBrawn.com
- CancerOption
- CaregiverZone.com
- Carewise
- Communicate.com
- Continuum Health Partners/Beth Isreal
- Diabetes.org
- Diamond Tech
- Discrete Medical
- Earthmed.com/LifeEnrichment.com
- Earth's Pharmacy
- efit
- efoodmanager.com
- Efficient Consumer Response Management (ECRM)
- Emake
- Emarketworld
- Enutrition
- Epods, Inc.
- essentialfats.com
- Esurg
- Farm Bid
- Food Buy.com
- ForMyCause
- GlobalFoodExchange.com
and many more
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