Does “Evidenced Based” Include the Blogs?
Via Austin Frakt, here is Dr. Herbert Chase, a consultant to the Watson project: Via Austin Frakt, here is Dr. Herbert Chase, a consultant to the Watson project: Patients have…
Who Runs the Nursing Home? CNA’s
The following is a guest post from Elizabeth O’Malley: With the advances in healthcare and surgery techniques, more adults are living into their eighties and beyond. Many are able to…
Debt Ridden Hospital in the UK Taken Over By Private Firm
The hospital was facing closure due to debt, and that sounds a lot like many hospitals in the US for that matter. It sounds like it was either outsourcing the
Which Types of Inequality Are Not PC?
Academic inequality is socially acceptable. It is perfectly fine to demonstrate that you are in the academic top 1 percent by wearing a Princeton, Harvard or Stanford sweatshirt. Ancestor inequality…
AMCs: The Journey from Idea to Action
This is a joint post with Kate McQueston November 12th is fast approaching and with it comes world pneumonia day. Unfortunately, pneumococcal diseases still pose an enormous global threat–remaining…
Are We Ready to Set Priorities for an AIDS-Free Generation?
Yesterday I attended the USAID and World Bank sponsored debate on “Treatment as Prevention,” where debaters were asked to support or oppose the proposition that countries should spend the majority…
Atlanta Occupy Location Tests Positive for Tuberculosis
In the last 3 months 2 people at the homeless shelter have been positive for TB when tested and since it is spread via the air, a move to a…
Avita Medical’s ReCell Achieves Breakthrough in Leg Ulcer Treatment
Avita Medical Limited (ASX: AVH) is a publicly traded global medical technology company trading on the Australian Stock Exchange. It develops, distributes and commercializes regenerative medicine products. Avita Medical Limited…
Is The FDA Keeping Us Fat?
Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. A Gallup poll found that 86% of full-time workers are overweight. A report in Health Affairs by Kenneth Thorpe, shows that 7% weight…
The Insider’s Guide to Nurses and the Internet
Results from a 2010 survey indicate that nurses ( ... as well as physicians! ) are about a year behind the general public in adopting social media. 87 percent of…
