Why Do Doctors Offer Credit Cards? It Helps Them Avoid Discounting
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (When Your Doctor Sells Credit Cards) documented the growth in credit cards issued to finance elective procedures such as LASIK, plastic surgery and dental implants. The…
Health Apps and Real Time Consults
There was more on the FDAs decision about health apps today. According to an informative blog post by Brian Dolan on MobileHealth News, the FDA will not regulate most apps.…
FDA Proposed Guidance on Mobile Health Apps
The FDA will release its proposed guidance on mobile health apps Wednesday with a 90 day comment period. They propose overseeing those apps that: The FDA will release its proposed guidance on…
Genomics Testing on the Hot Seat
Scandals often clarify issues. A researcher at Duke Medical Center recently departed after his ballyhooed genomics tests for identifying lung and other cancers was unmasked as based on falsified data.…
Ventura County Operation Medical Shelter
One of my former Ventura County co-workers and Public Health's lead for healthcare disaster response sent me a link to their YouTube Video from their recent exercise and training. I'm glad…
Biologics in Spine Surgery
Successful bone fusion requires three critical elements: an osteogenic potential capable of directly providing cells to the newly forming bone, osteoinductive factors that can cause osteoprogenitor stem cells to differentiate…
Smart Phone Device Takes EKGs in 30 seconds
Phones are getting better all the time and with all the big strides being made in consumer medical devices will we, someday in the future be required t show up…
Diagnosing an Illness With Facebook
“How Facebook Saved My Son’s Life” -it’s hard to think of a more dramatic headline than that one from Slate. Last week a mother posted an article about her experience.…
Obesity Drug Development and Market Outlook
Researchers theorize that the current increasing prevalence of obesity is primarily driven by the combination of sedentary lifestyles (i.e. the increasing prevalence of desk jobs over physical jobs, as well…
Elder Financial Abuse Spikes 12% Since 2008
Older Americans are losing $2.9 billion annually to elder financial abuse, a 12 percent increase from the $2.6 billion estimated in 2008, according to “
