On Saturday morning, I cracked a tooth. Having not seen a dentist in over a decade, and having shunned the dental profession most of my life, I had no idea what to do. Being the hapless nerd I am, I immediately tweeted about it. Fortunately, I received a flood of responses, on both Twitter and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Health'
Crowdsourcing My Mouth
August 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Business, Hawaii, Health, People, Social Media
Tags: dentists·google·reviews·seo·socialgraph·socialnetworks
Breathe Concert Set for Jan. 30
January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art, Events, Hawaii, Health, People
Lung cancer is the number one killer of adults in Hawaii, and the Aloha State is ranked second in the nation for youth asthma. In all, over 175,000 islanders have lung disease — that’s more than the combined populations of Maui and Kauai. The American Lung Association of Hawaii (ALAH) is leading the charge against [...]
Hawaii is Happy
December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Hawaii, Health
Hawaii is the second happiest U.S. state, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Science. More interestingly, the researchers say that a community’s perception of its level of happiness seems to correlate with mostly objective measures of quality of life. “We wanted to study whether people’s feelings of satisfaction with their own lives [...]
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By the Numbers
August 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Business, Hawaii, Health
Summer, it seems, is the season of statistics. I’ve noticed a number of rankings in the news lately in which Hawaii has distinguished itself… for better or worse: Hawaii tops the country in well-being, according to a Gallup survey. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index gives Hawaii a score of 69.4 (out of 100), edging ahead of [...]
Tags: numbers·statistics
Mobile Medical Clinic Coming to Big Island
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Hawaii, Health, Technology
Kaiser Permanente is shipping a 500-square-foot, 10-wheel Mobile Health Vehicle to the Big Island, hoping to improve the accessibility of heath care services in largely rural Hawaii County. The vehicle was placed on a ship today in San Francisco, and will be officially unveiled July 2. When fully operational beginning July 21, it will continuously [...]
Tags: big island·Health·kaiser·medicine
