In Battle Against HAIs, Innovative Biotechs Play Key Role
HAIs (hospital acquired infections) are the cause of 1.7 million infections and 100,000 deaths per year in U.S. HAIs (hospital acquired infections) are the cause of 1.7 million infections and 100,000 deaths…
Contraception for Techno-Doctors
What? Just what am I talking about? Give me a minute. More and more people are telling me too often they are encountering doctors who 1) don’t look them in…
Packing on the Pounds? Blame the Potato
Americans gain nearly one pound of weight each year after reaching adulthood. Scientists have long speculated about the source of that gain. An article in the New England Journal of…
Maybe We Don’t Need to Train So Many Doctors
The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce the funding for Graduate Medical Education (GME) paid through Medicare. To fight back, they’ve written a scare story…
Gruber Cherry-Picks the Evidence for RomneyCare
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber touts the Massachusetts health plan, which he helped create, in a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (the Washington Post provides a summary). So…
Florida Proposing New Medicaid Fees
The state of Florida wants to impose $10 monthly premiums on Medicaid recipients who are not in nursing homes. Additionally, the state is proposing a $100 fee for Medicaid patients…
Health Care Buzz Today
Poor are Healthier with Medicaid. Enrolling patients in Medicaid increases their use of healthcare services, reduces financial strain on these impoverished patients and improves their sense of well-being, according to…
Scientists Using the Web to Raise Research Funds
We all know fund raising in science, especially healthcare science is not easy today and I included the portions below that pertain to such. Groups are also looking for money…
Life Sciences Venture Investing Outperformed Tech Venture Investing Over the Past Decade
I read with great interest a study posted on TheBij.com which talks about venture investment returns in the healthcare field: Life Sciences: The Rodney Dangerfield of Venture Capital. I’ve been in…
347 Pages of Regulations; 811 References to Mandates
This is hot off the press from Chris Jacobs: This is hot off the press from Chris Jacobs: HHS just released part of its Exchange regulations—a 244-page regulation regarding the…
