Criminal Injustice and DNA Testing
Since the late 1980s, DNA testing has exonerated more than 250 wrongly convicted people, who spent an average of 13 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. How did…
COPD Patients Can Improve Condition with Physical Activity
New research shows a combination of exercise classes and confidence-building programs can lead to an increase in physical activity for COPD patients. New research shows a combination of exercise classes…
Harvard Researcher Increasing Brain Regions That Can be Targeted by FUS
FUSF Research Award recipient: Nathan McDannold, Harvard Medical School, USA Nathan McDannold, PhD, started working in focused ultrasound research as a physics graduate student in 1996. “I…
What Difference Has RomneyCare Made?
Most conservative critics of the Massachusetts health reform have focused on any piece of bad news about the program they can find. After all, if this is the model for…
Baseball Caps, Flip Flops and Melanoma
This isn’t a personal health and wellness blog, but as a light-skinned, blue-eyed, bald redhead I feel compelled to post the occasional piece about sun exposure. I’ve been careful about…
Free Clinics Turning Away Patients
Clinics are over whelmed with the number of patients as well as the increasing number of returned visits. This is certainly a sign of the times of our current healthcare…
B. Braun Acquires Patent for Wireless Communication Between Medical Devices And Hospital Information Systems
The patent relates to the company’s Smart Pumps and DoseTrac Infusion systems whereby the software can be read at a nursing station or anywhere else where a computer is available…
Teens Seek Sex Ed Online.
Deb Levine, Chief Executive of ISIS, writes on her blog about the findings of a survey looking at how adolescents learn about various topics including sex education. Not surprisingly sex…
Hospital Mortality Rates Rise in July
It has often been suspected that death rates in hospitals rise particularly in the summer when a new crop of medical residents start. Previous studies have been inconclusive. A new…
Health Care Buzz Today
Docs Averse to Sharing Patient Data, Even for Public Health. When it comes to disclosing identifiable patient information, family doctors are reluctant to do so – even for public health…
