Free Health Care
This past weekend, Wal-Mart was offering health care screenings to male customers at no charge. Sam’s Clubs across the country gave any customer willing to take the time: BMI Index…
National Study Will Offer Holistic Monitoring of Senior Trends
The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is a new resource for the scientific study of functioning in later life The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is…
Health Care Buzz Today
Facebook Adds Facial Recognition. Without telling its users, Facebook has launched a facial recognition feature designed to make it easier for users to tag photos. As it has in the…
Newport Beach Doctors and Affiliates Arrested & Accused of Medical Insurance Fraud
There are some second time offenders on this list too. I read in another account of the arrests that one procedure they billed for only had 2 doctors who were…
Predicting Cardiac Arrest 24 Hours Before it Happens
We are starting to hear more about machine learning technologies and for a pretty well known answer, think about IBM Watson’s 70 servers and there’s We are starting to hear…
Surgical Sealants and Fibrin Glues
Surgical sealants and fibrin glues are biologically based products designed to aid in the process of clot formation. Clotting is the first naturally occurring process in wound repair, and affects…
Is TV Killing Us?
The latest Journal of the American Medical Association has a meta-analysis of the limited number (8) of studies that looked at peoples’ television habits and their relationship to incidence of…
Neostem’s Suzhou Eyre receives Chinese Regulatory Approval For 6th Production Line
NeoStem (AMEX:NBS) announced Monday that its subsidiary, Suzhou Eyre Pharmaceuticals, has received approval for its sixth production line from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). NeoStem (AMEX:NBS) announced…
Workplace Wellness Meets in the Middle of the Aisle
Congress is taking note of the need for workplace wellness, and elected officials are increasingly committed to making sure that the companies in their districts, for which their constituents are…
Quote of the Day
If cellphones caused brain tumors, we should have seen a worldwide increase in brain tumors pandemic as the phones became ubiquitous. That hasn’t happened. Full article on cancer and cell…
