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…
Stem Cells-Part II – Rebuilding the Damaged Heart and Other Organs
EXCLUSIVE POST - EXCLUSIVE POST - Medical Megatrends - Stem cell therapies promise to be one of those scientific breakthroughs that will have an enormous impact on health care in the…
CDC Reports: 90% of ADULTS Have Difficulty Following Routine Medical Advice
So if that's the case, how on earth are adolescents able to take in advice given to them during a medical visit? How are they going to be able to negotiate the…
The Web-Savvy Patient: Jane Brody and Me
There must be 100,000 or more non-fiction books that come out every year. You never hear about most of them. The New York publishers bet on a few when the…
Letter From the Curator
Hello Everyone, As always, I want to thank all our bloggers for all the great posts. I love reading them and publishing them for others to read and enjoy. I…
Breast Cancer and Mesothelioma
EXCLUSIVE POST -Mesothelioma is an uncommon and very aggressive cancer caused by exposure to a group of minerals called asbestos. The main use of asbestos was to insulate products from…
