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ScrubdIn Announces Winners of 2011 Best Medical Apps Contest. Best medical app for health care professionals: Medibabble. Best medical app for patients: iHealth Blood Pressure Monitor. Most innovative Medical app:…
ARTAS Hair Transplant Robot Gets FDA Clearance
This is quite a machine for hair transplants from the picture. I guess we need a robot for almost everything any more and hair transplants seem to be no exception. I tend…
GOP’s Best Bet on Health Care: Stick With the Slogans
On today’s New York Times Op-Ed page (A Slogan, Not a Plan) conservatives Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin assert: Republicans have an effective slogan for their health care agenda: “repeal…
Amnestix Develops Genetic Analysis System
Amnestix is a biopharmaceutical company that has developed a powerful analytical platform to identify genetic determinants that underlie neurological disorders. The company’s genetic analysis system is called whole-genome association, and…
Trends in Medicare Part D
Recent research from Avalere Health, LLC using Medicare Part D reveals some interesting trends. Overall, premiums for fee-for-service prescription drug plans (PDPs) increased by 3%. For beneficiaries who enrolled in…
Key ACA Provision Regarding Medicare Spending Oversight Finds Many Foes
Recent concerns of two members of congress have upped the ante in the war against a key provision of the ACA: the development of an independent payment advisory board[
An Alternative to Malpractice
About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed a radical alternative to our system of malpractice liability. He called it “liability by contract.” The idea: let…
Multi-Tasking and Aging
According to the National Academy of Sciences older adults have more trouble with multitasking than younger people. According to the National Academy of Sciences older adults have more trouble with…
New Alzheimer’s Guidelines: Better Late than Never
For the first time in 30 years, an expert panel has updated guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The long overdue facelift should favorably impact care for millions and…
Reducing Surgical Complications – The Checklist
Hospitals are not safe places – that’s a fact and is also a fact that, despite substantial efforts over the past few years, hospitals remain unsafe. It is estimated that…
