Alzheimer’s Preventable with Lifestyle Changes
New research suggests that nearly half of worldwide Alzheimer's disease cases can be prevented by making healthy lifestyle changes that are often associated with preventing other chronic health conditions. New…
More Obesity News from The Lancet
This is via Kevin Outterson at The Incidental Economist. What does it take to lose weight? This is via Kevin Outterson at The Incidental Economist. What does it take to…
NHS Doctors to Use “Redneck Telehealth” Also Known as “Skype”–A Good Thing
A while back I wrote about this topic with a friend who was out of town and needed to talk with his doctor long distance and the doctor wanted to…
Can Medicare be Cut Without Harming Patients?
Yes, according to former White House advisors, Zeke Emanuel and Jeff Liebman: Yes, according to former White House advisors, Zeke Emanuel and Jeff Liebman: Late last year, the Food and…
Health Information Technology Online Seminar
I've been quite impressed by the American College of Healthcare Executives interest in health information technology over the last few years and their desire to spark the imagination of healthcare leaders.…
Walter Reed Hospital Closes
After more than a century of service (102 years, to be exact), Walter Reed Hospital in DC is closing its doors. This seemed to be an inevitability, especially after the…
Is Kathleen Sebelius Listening to the NCPA?
Apparently so. But she’s only understood half the message. For several years now, NCPA scholars have been calling for a radical change in how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals —…
Should Patients Join the Pay-for-Performance Circus?
There was an extremely popular game show where several times each episode the emcee would shout out, "Survey Said!". Of course, this was just a game, not real life. Now,…
Eyeborg–A Prosthetic Eye That Records and Streams Video (Video)
This is a video worth watching as this is amazing how he built this replacement eyeball. What’s even stranger though is to hear him talk about the technology with prosthetics…
Stem Cells Extracted from Fat Save Patient from Amputation – Video
This is some pretty amazing technology with what they were able to do with stem cells here and save the woman who was in a wheelchair from amputation, and on…
