GAO: FDA Can’t Monitor Device Recalls
The Government Accountability Office has weighed in on the failure of the Food and Drug Administration to properly monitor medical device recalls. Its review of the 3,510 recalls between 2005…
Global Warming: Good for Your Health?
Six centuries after the Black Death ravaged Europe, the gruesomeness of the disease and its hopeless, unavoidable death sentence still assault the human psyche. Rarely a week would pass from…
An App That Predicts Behavior
Here we go again with yet one more device that was spun out of MIT and sure it has some clinical use for some situations and the use in a…
Doximity Mobile and Web Secure Network for Doctors To Communicate
This is an interesting service and could be very useful and you can watch the video below to see how it functions for doctors to have their own network to…
Is There Too Much Screening for Heart Disease?
The number of these tests has increased significantly over the last 20 to 30 years, and these days screening may involve any of a dozen procedures — some as simple…
Why Not the Best? Or, at Least, Why Not the Same?
The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and…
2011 Cost of Long-Term Care Study Releases Findings
John Hancock Financial (John Hancock) recently announced the results of its 2011 cost of care study, which found that long-term care (LTC) costs have continued to increase, but not as…
Death by Regulation
“How many of you have not been able to get a drug you needed to properly deliver anesthesia to a patient?” I asked. Every hand in the room went up.…
Incidence and Prevalence of Morbid Obesity
Morbid obesity is associated with a substantially increased risk of morbidity and mortality from chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and it has been linked…
Man Robs Bank for $1 So He Could Get Healthcare in Prison
This is sad indeed, but when incarcerated, they get medical attention. You can read the rest of the story but he sat down and waited for the police, no running…
