Gain of function research of concern is defined as research activities reasonably anticipated to increase a potential pandemic pathogen’s transmissibility, pathogenicity, ability to overcome immune response or ability to overcome a vaccine or drug. Gain of function research of concern involves the creation of new health threats, health threats that did not exist previously, and that might not come to exist by natural means for tens, hundreds or thousands of years - Richard Ebright PhD

Gain of function research of concern is defined as research activities reasonably anticipated to increase a potential pandemic pathogen’s transmissibility, pathogenicity, ability to overcome immune response or ability to overcome a vaccine or drug. Gain of function research of concern involves the creation of new health threats, health threats that did not exist previously, and that might not come to exist by natural means for tens, hundreds or thousands of years - Richard Ebright PhD

clarity when it matters

Cyclospora

Cyclospora

Washing produce isn’t very effective to rid it of cyclospora. The only real solution is for public health officials to spot the contaminated food quickly and get it off shelves - Paul Cieslak  

Half Full/Half Empty: How Much Water Is Enough?

Half Full/Half Empty: How Much Water Is Enough?

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water - Albert Szent-Györgyi  

Ticks

Ticks

With a tick boom, it’s not just Lyme Disease you have to fear - Perri Klass MD  

Sepsis

Sepsis

Except on few occasions, the patient appears to die from the body's response to infection rather than from it - William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine, 1904  

what in health are we doing to ourselves and the planet ?

Child Trafficking

Child Trafficking

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time - Condoleezza Rice  

One Pill Can Kill

One Pill Can Kill

Never take a pill that wasn’t prescribed directly to you. Never take a pill from a friend. Never take a pill bought on social media. Just one pill is dangerous and one pill can kill - DEA  

Marijuana Harms

Marijuana Harms

You may reasonably decide the benefits outweigh the harms, but you should know about those potential harms - Aaron E. Carroll  

Alcohol and Cancer Risk

Alcohol and Cancer Risk

There is no safe level of alcohol when it comes to cancer risk - Ernest Hawk MD  

Fluoridation: Miracle Public Health Win?

Fluoridation: Miracle Public Health Win?

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad - Jesse Ventura  

Gender Affirming Care for Youth

Gender Affirming Care for Youth

Gender-affirming care is riddled with ethical dilemmas that have spilled over into an explosive political situation. The changing landscape of transgender health care, debates about puberty blockers and detransition are all low-hanging fruit - Kinnon R. MacKinnon and Pablo Expósito-Campos  

biopolitics

Public Protests

Public Protests

Empirical studies have shown that nonviolent movements are more successful than violent ones at bringing about positive social changes - John Horgan  

Birth Tourism

Birth Tourism

I am frustrated -- and I have to be honest, angered -- by the fact that as a society we are being abused. I think we are a very generous society - Saul Pytka MD   

Immigrants

Immigrants

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong - George Washington   

did you know?

Peptide Supplements

Peptide Supplements

We’re in this age of hyperfocus on wellness, antiaging, preventive health - Abraham Malkin  

Dart Frog Toxin

Dart Frog Toxin

Scientists still do not know exactly how it survives its own venom. The frog does not seem to care about the mystery. It just sits there. Bright. Beautiful. Untouchable. Some things are too dangerous to be afraid - Sue Strandt  

Vitamin D3 with K2

Vitamin D3 with K2

Without enough vitamin K2 there is an increased risk of hardening of the arteries and other soft tissues. Vitamin K2, along with vitamin D, are essential for the bones to uptake and incorporate calcium - Jessica W. Seaton DC  

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world - Steve Gleason  

Penis Fillers

Penis Fillers

Sticking a syringe in your penis might sound terrifying, but it’s a legit cosmetic procedure - Jocelyn Solis-Moreira MS  

GLP-1 Supplements

GLP-1 Supplements

But it’s important to understand that these supplements most always do not have the same level of scientific backing or efficacy as prescription GLP-1 agonists - Michael Snyder MD  

the health cloud

StaynHealthy

StaynHealthy

When it comes to health, I hope we can help the next generations understand that there isn’t always an app for that - Doris Iarovici MD   

Wellness

Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good - Iman

Behavioral Health

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex - Vivienne Ming

Dental Health

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth - Benjamin Franklin

Environmental Health

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink - HWN

Gardening

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul - Alfred Austin

Challenges

Challenges

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always I am healthily in body and mind - Swami Sivananda   

Autoimmune Conditions

In fact, autoimmune disease is as much of a medical frontier today as syphilis or tuberculosis was in the nineteenth century - Meghan O'Rourke

Cancer

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset - Dave Pelzer

Covid-19 Archives

For the latest go to Covid-19

Diabetes

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring - Heidi Murkoff

Fatigue

Fatigue is the best pillow - Benjamin Franklin

Business of Health

Business of Health

Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual - Elizabeth Holmes  

AI

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us - David Gelernter

Clinical Trials

Amid health care tailored to an individual’s DNA, do massive clinical trials that take years and involve thousands of patients still matter - Lucette Lagnado

Digital Health

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant - Mitchell Kapor

Green Economy

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century - John Doerr

Pharmacies

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy - Napoleon Bonaparte

DIY (Do It Yourself)

DIY (Do It Yourself)

Be wary of medical websites and blogs, the internet is not a crystal ball - JoAnne Weiskopf  

DIAGNOS

Search our vast database of original and curated content on issues that matter.

Home Medical Tests

From coronavirus nasal swabs to do-it-yourself STD checks, health brands are recognizing the power of staying indoors - Ethan Jakob Craft

Dr. ChatGPT

The value proposition of AI grows with every passing day, and the prospect of realigning its trajectory fades. In today’s electrified and enterprising world, AI chatbots are already proliferating faster than any technology that came before - Oshan Jarow

Health Information Online

The challenge before us is this: how can we find and capitalize on all good information — and avoid wrong information — to have healthier lives and societies - Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman

Symptom Checkers

If you trust Google more than your doctor than maybe it's time to switch doctors - Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Emergencies

Emergencies

The emergency department is a place unlike any other on the planet. Life and death interactions happen daily - Robert Brandt MD  

Emergency Nurses

Save a life, you're a hero. Save a 100 lives, you're a nurse - Unknown

Emergency Physicians

Acute-care scenarios are why we exist — or why we train. That’s our expertise. Clearly, it would be disingenuous to proclaim we are masters of every organ in the body. Rather, emergency medicine (EM) physicians are masters of resuscitating the dying, the dead — stabilizing the sick - Edward Lew MD

Inside the ER Emergencies

When I come on to my shift, I don’t have any clue what I’m going to see - Kathleen Clem MD

Emergencies Outside the ER

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination - Al Gore

Sneaky Emergencies

Some patients may, indeed, have “classic” presentations of these disease processes. On the other hand, other patients may have more subtle signs and symptoms - Sarah Brubaker MD and Brit Long MD

Give & Share

Give & Share

You can save lives with your giving. Here’s how - Dylan Matthews  

Charity Fundraising

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give - Winston S. Churchill

Disasters

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart - Daisaku Ikeda

Donate Online

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity - Albert Camus

Homeless

We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy - Raheem DeVaughn

Mental Health

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ - John Steinbeck

Healtainment

Healtainment

A day without laughter is a day wasted - Charlie Chaplin   

Best Medicine

Laughter truly is 'the best medicine'. Take a happy pill, humour heals, it hurts when I laugh, a stitch in time saves nine...we have heard them all or just about - Shilo Zylbergold

Celebrity Health

If a celebrity says it's so, somewhere there are hundreds or thousands or millions of people who believe it. So what to do when celebrity truths are dubious or flat-out falsehoods - Greggory Moore

History of Medicine

First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign - Hippocrates 430BC

Medical Drama

Most people associate hospitals with disease. I think of romance. But that's another story - Dr. Daniel Auschlander, St. Elsewhere

Music & Health

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain - Bob Marley

Opinions

Opinions

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them - Herbert Henry Lehman  

Bioethics

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do - Potter Stewart

Euthanasia

How we die has changed tremendously over the past few decades — and so must we - Haider Javed Warraich

Life

The egg is alive, the sperm is alive, the cells from which they develop are alive, it is a continuum - Nick Hopwood

Medical Miracles

A doctor who believes in miracles is one who doesn’t shut the door on the seemingly impossible too soon, but continues to fight with all their tools and skills for the expected as well as the unexpected cure - Marc Siegel MD

Health Musings

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts - Michael Bassey Johnson

Professionals

Professionals

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams   

Acupuncturists

Acupuncture is a "retrospective science, going on for 3,000 years. We know it works, we just don't know why - Leena Mathew MD

Careers in Healthcare

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night - Marilyn Monroe

Dentists

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists - Ann Landers

Health Information Technology

Information is not knowledge - Albert Einstein

Homeopathic Medicine

Homeopathy is the only non-violent health care system ― Ron Harris

Public Health

Public Health

The success or failure of any government in the final analysis must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing can be more important to a state than its public health; the state’s paramount concern should be the health of its people - Franklin Delano Roosevelt   

Public Health Crises

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts - Abraham Lincoln

Climate Change

In a sense, climate change is an opportunity for us to step up—to grow up—as a species.- Emma Marris

Long Term Care

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible - Jeanne Louise Calment (1875-1997)

Freedom

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others - Nelson Mandela

Gun Control

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror - Eliot Spitzer

Sport & Health

Sport & Health

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it - Plato  

Energy Bars

Don’t ever feel that you have to rely on energy bars to meet your calorie and nutritional needs - Becky Hand

Fitness

There’s a fitness revolution at work here, A lot of people are reconsidering what works for them, and also becoming more flexible and more open to different types of fitness - Shanel Anderson

Heat Related Illness

Contrary to popular belief, heat illnesses do not exist on a continuum. You do not need to have heat cramps or syncope before you have heat exhaustion - Korey Stringer Institute

Physical Education

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise - Sebastian Coe

Sport Injuries

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental - Pele

Travel & Health

Travel & Health

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going – Paul Theroux   

Birth Tourism

I am frustrated -- and I have to be honest, angered -- by the fact that as a society we are being abused. I think we are a very generous society - Saul Pytka MD

Dental Tourism

We all have colleagues across this planet who are very capable and knowledgeable experts in their fields. No dentist [in any] country is perfect - Maria Lopez Howell DDS

Disability & Travel

We must come to appreciate that accessible tourism does not only benefit persons with disabilities or special needs, it benefits us all - Taleb Rifai

Medical Tourism

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey – Pat Conroy

Space Travel

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space - Christa McAuliffe

our story

It's a complicated time with so much information and along with it, disinformation, and we just want to just cut through the noise - Shepherd Smith

The world of health and medicine is vast and constantly evolving. Every health issue has its own unique world with a story to tell, which in most instances can be controversial. To meet this challenge HWN is disrupting the way health and medical content is delivered on the internet.

With the intent of achieving our vision 'Informed People, Healthier World', our innovative easy-to-use platform uses the power of storytelling and imagery to provide clarity on issues that matter to you and our planet's health.

Our targeted content, including showcasing what people are talking about, entertains and empowers a broad-based audience including people with medical challenges, those who simply want to stay healthy and anyone involved in the business of health.

Say goodbye to time consuming searches. Recognizing that topics can have divergent views, Diagnos strives to give our users the best curated and original content. Who says you can't be entertained and learn at the same time?

 

 

But we don't stop there. Our platform also includes:

Defib247 is our global campaign that focuses on increasing public awareness about Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) along with expanding PAD accessibility 24-7. Our goal is to double the survival rate of out of hospital sudden cardiac arrest by 2030.

Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.

Health Entertainment Network (HEN) is a dynamic platform blending education with entertainment delivering compelling videos and blogs from HealthWorldNet.com and its evolving series The Novateurs highlighting visionary innovators building a healthier future for people and the planet.

First the internet, now HealthWorldNet (HWN) connecting you to the world of health and medicine, the alternative to the usual health and wellness sites.

Earth photos by Bruce Irving and Reto Stöckli, "jobs" photo courtesy U.S. Navy, "stay healthy" photo by Jasmine Kaloudis

stay connected

Stitches
Facebook
YouTube
Defib247
Health Entertainment Network