Meet the Hip Hop Docs
They are doctors aiming to get the message to kids through hip hop.
There’s Rani G Whitfield, a board certified family doctor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana who wants to  empower young people to change unhealthly lifestyles.
By hip hop…
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And then there’s Dr John Clarke from New York City who does the medical rap, writing his own lyrics about ssthma, diabetes, and HIV.
Dr Clarke has just entered the 2009 Flu Prevention PSA Contest with his song about Swine  H1N1 Flu.
You can vote for Dr Clarke’s entry or any of the other 9 entries at the flu.gov contest site.
 

Childbirth videos are nothing new. They’ve been screened at pre-natal birthing classes since the 1970s. But they are mostly dated and often highly edited so as not to offend or upset expectant parents.
Now there’s a category of childbirth videos around – real life, unedited, and made friends and families of those in labour.  And they can be found in thousands over at  You Tube.
A quick google search of ‘YouTube childbirth videos’ turned up 195,000 results.
Seems that more and more women are making these videos in the belief that they will help “demystify” childbirth.
They are watched by expectant parents who want …read more

Did you know that you have ten times more bacteria cells than human cells on you at any one time? Makes it sound like everyone is a human time bomb, just waiting to get sick. But in actual fact, these bacteria are our protectors, covering us like a suit of armour.
That’s just one of the interesting pieces of information you can pick up by listening to this fascinating TED Talk by bacteriologist Bonnie Bassler.

Wired Science has a fascinating post featuring 10 Gory Surgical Triumphs on YouTube.
Full of blood and gore, it’s definitely not for anyone who has a weak stomach. But if you ever dreamed of being a surgeon, love all the reality medical shows, then this might just be the list for you.
The list covers everything from open-heart surgery to amputations, sex-change operations to autopsies. They even remove a fish hook from an eye. Nothing, it seems, is safe from the internet.
Brain surgery anyone?

Ever wonder what it’s like to have prosthetic legs?
Aimee Mullins – athlete, model, and actress – lets us into her world with this interesting talk at TED.
Born without fibular bones, Aimee had both legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant and learned to walk and then run on prosthetics. The running led to competing as a sprinter and resulted in her becoming a world record breaking runner at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta.

Is there a ‘creative genius’ in all of us?
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love (One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia), thinks so.
In this TED talk, she considers the possibility that everyone has a ‘genuis’ inside them and they just need to find it and let it out.

Watch it. It will inspire you to keep working on finding your genius.

Got a few minutes to spare? Then check out this National Geographic Channel quiz which challenges you to compare twinned photos to find 10 differences in each, and learn facts about identical twins, particularly how they may not actually be fully identical.
Sure hope you do better than me…

The National Geographic Channel created this quiz as part of their In the Womb series.
By the way, the next episode of In the Womb screens this Saturday 28th February on National Geographic Channel.

Do your eyes need testing?

It’s all about yoga today.
First, I posted about the winner of the Yoga Paws.
And now, I’m posting about Healthbolt’s latest giveaway – a Yoga DVD. But it’s not just any old yoga DVD. This one is by Sadie Nardini, director of East West Yoga in New York City and founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, a form of yoga considered a ‘calorie-torcher’ by Time Out New York. Apparently it can transform the body faster in 60 minutes than most yoga does in 90 minutes.
This Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga:Power Hour DVD  is full on and features a 40-minute Floor Flow, Core …read more

Looking at the calendar this morning, I suddenly realized that it was one year ago today that I started blogging at Healthbolt. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. I know it’s a cliche, but it only seems like yesterday.
So in celebration of the day, I thought I’d share some of my favorite posts with you…
Nine Christmas Gifts for the Hypochondriac in Your Life was the second post I wrote for Healthbolt and it was probably the most fun. Exploring all the interesting and fun gifts you could buy for the ‘hypochondriac’ was a blast. After all, how could …read more