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…

 

 
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.

 

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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 to get ‘all the facts.’

Some even get more than they bargained on.

Back in May, one British father actually ended up delivering his own baby soon after watching some of these videos. Seems that his wife went into pre-mature labour and the midwife was unable to get to her in time. The baby was determined to be born and the only one there to help was the nervous father, armed only with his memory of what he had seen on the video clips.

But as this New York Times article reports, the graphic nature of public childbirth videos makes them controversial, with many people thinking there are a great idea and many others thinking it’s all pretty gross.

So, what do you think?

Childbirth via YouTube –  Great or Gross?

(image by Jenny Rollo)

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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.

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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?

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Aimee Mullins – athlete, model, and actress – lets us into her world with this interesting talk at TED.

Image: Newscom

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Salutations (Warm + Energize + Tone), a 20-Minute Wall Flow, Core Stretch (Invert + Detox + Stretch ) plus a BEGINNER COMMENTARY on Alignment Tips and Modifications for Basic Level!

Healthbolt has one copy of Sadie Nardini’s Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga:Power Hour DVD to giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment by 18th December saying why you think this is the Yoga DVD for you.

This is a worldwide giveaway.

The winners will be announced on 19th December and sent an email with the subject heading ‘Healthbolt Giveaway Winner’ with instructions on how to claim their prize.

And don’t forget it’s ‘every day a giveaway’ this month at Healthbolt.

 

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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 a person resist fluffy giant microbes and internal organs.

And then there was Doing the Hasselhoff and Pumpkin Positive, an examination of entertaining and information medical slang.

On a more serious note, I wrote about how the CDC says Morgellons is a mystery disease worth investigating, found 5 Smoking Gadgets That Might Help You Quit Smoking, discussed needle phobia in No Needles Please…I’m Belonephobic, and looked at some fascinating historic facts about Marijuana.

There was also human interest stories with the Ice Man, the Blue Man, the Tree Man, and the Upside Down Man.

Plus the unique, the intriguing, and the bizarre with Can You Do This With Your Body, Dermatographia as Body Art, Blood-Sucking Beauty, What’s That in Your Head,  A Visit to the Anatomical Theatre, and Russian Spa builds a monument to the enema.

There were some health tips such as Humming my way to clearer sinuses, Do the Hara Hachi Bu, Zip Your Migraine Away With Magnets, and Are You Tired of Being Tired.

But of all 300 plus posts over this past year, Remembering Randy Pausch is the one I consider the most important. What he said in The Last Lecture will stick with me always…

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