Sutter Health HIPAA Breach: Lessons Learned
The Sutter Health HIPAA breach of 3.3 million patient demographic data from 1995 to January 2011 was recently reported - and an additional 943,000 patients from the Sutter Medical Foundation…
Is Super Committee Failure a Good Thing?
By Wednesday, the so-called “Super Committee,” a bipartisan group of legislators, is supposed to reach an agreement on how to reduce future deficits. Almost everybody expects the effort to fail.…
A Better Way to Approach Medicare’s Impossible Task
As the “Super Committee” faces mounting pressure to rein in Medicare spending, two sides seem to be squaring off. The don’t-touch-a-thing-other-than-squeezing-provider-fees position seems to appeal to mainly Democrats, while eat-your-spinach…
Supremes to Hear Case on Affordable Care Act
The legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act commenced just as soon as the bill became law in 2010. The legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act commenced just as…
Stem Cell Therapy FDA Approved for Wrinkles
The treatment, called laViv, was developed by Fibrocell Science of Exton, Pa. The treatment, called laViv, was developed by Fibrocell Science of Exton, Pa. It involves taking a sample of…
“Too Posh To Push” in UK
Currently, British women who can’t afford to pay private doctors for their baby’s delivery have been allowed to have planned C-sections only if there are health concerns for mother or…
Lawyers and Medical Malpractice Reform: Tort Reform Allies for Doctors?
When lawyers talk, I listen. Two attorneys penned a piece on medical malpractice reform in the April 21st issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the most prestigious medical…
Junk in the Trunk: Amateur Buttock Enhancements can Kill
The arrest of a Florida man for allegedly performing buttock injections with a variety of home-improvement products may seem shocking to outside observers. Not so in South Florida. We see…
Frailty – Common In Elderly, But Is It Preventable?
Americans are aging – fast. And that means more chronic illnesses like arthritis, heart failure and cancer. It also means more falls, more osteoporotic fractures, poorer hearing and vision and…
TEDxCambridge 2011 Twitter Feed
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