Wall Street Protesters Need a Cause Like Healthcare
One of the mistaken characterizations being bandied about the media echo-chamber about the anti-Wall Street protests now sweeping the country is that it is somehow a left-wing version of the…
Can Computers Replace Doctors?
They are already reading Pap smears: They are already reading Pap smears: Pap-screening computer, the BD FocalPoint GS Imaging System, is a marvel of medical engineering. The machine’s image-searching software…
Inappropriate Care Costs U.S. $6.76 Billion Annually
A new study almost $7 billion of wasteful spending in American health care: A new study almost $7 billion of wasteful spending in American health care: $5.8 billion: Prescribing a…
Inovio Wins Award for Cervical Cancer Vaccine Research
Inovio Pharmaceuticals (AMEX:INO) announced Wednesday that it has won the Edward Jenner Poster Award First Prize for its research to develop a therapeutic, synthetic vaccine for cancer, at the recent…
Wound Closure Market Shifts From Traditional to Advance Products
As the practice and the market for surgical sealants, glues, wound closure and anti-adhesion evolves, a marked shift is taking place that is moving caseload and market from traditional wound…
SCOTUS Hears California Medicaid Case
The SCOTUS has begun a new term, and the most august judicial body is hearing a case involving potential for healthcare consumers (patients), hospitals, or even doctors to sue a state government for…
Memory Fitness Programs Boost Learning and Retention
Memory fitness programs at senior living communities helped improve seniors' verbal learning and retention, plus boosted their self-perceived memory, researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles concluded.They…
Colbert Talks to a Harvard Doctor – Video
We are all still trying to figure that one ourselves:) This is done to promote the doctor’s new book at Harvard Medical, Your Medical Minds from Dr. We are all…
Pharmaceutical Research in Obesity
The challenges in the treatment of obesity are in providing practical, long-term solutions to a condition that is growing rapidly and is associated with numerous co-morbidities that include diabetes, hypertension…
Lab Results for All! Of Data Liberation, Participatory Medicine, and Government 2.0
On September 14, HHS released for comment draft lab results regulations that will, if finalized, effectively bathe the Achilles’ heel of health data in the River Styx of ¡data liberación! All lab results…
