The Best of Highlight HEALTH 2012 – The Year in Review

As the year draws to a close, it’s become a tradition for us to take a look back at the top stories readers were interested in (this month, Highlight HEALTH celebrated it’s sixth year promoting advances in biomedical research). As we have in previous years, we’ve compiled two top ten lists of the most-viewed stories for 2012, one as measured by the absolute number of page views and the other as measured by the average number of page views per day posted. To get a sense of underlying themes for the top ten lists, here’s a tag cloud of terms taken from articles that made the cut: biomarker BMI brain cancer risk circumcision death epidemic genetic variant genome healthcare reform HPV inflammation neuroticism overeating Parkinson’s disease personalized medicine pertussis pluripotent risk sleep smoking stem cells stress sugar tea vaccination Walmart whooping cough The Highlight HEALTH Network Highlight HEALTH is part of the Highlight HEALTH Network, a group of three websites that focus on health and medicine for the general public. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we report on biomedical research, provide background and analysis, and explain how the results affect you, the healthcare consumer. We also offer original analysis and editorials focused on healthcare and current health news. At Highlight HEALTH 2.0, we focus on new ideas impacting health and medicine. We post on new apps and technologies in health and medicine. Lastly, the Highlight HEALTH Web...
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