Allergan’s Lap-Band Gains 26 Million More Customers
The decision by the FDA to allow the use of lap-band for the management of obesity in patients with a lower body mass index (BMI) than previously was the case…
Miami Medicare Fraud Bust Easily Tops July 2010 Net
Who knew Miami was the Medicare fraud capital of the country? An enormous net of Medicare malfeasance was cast, involving over 100 nurses, physicians, and executives colluding to nab over…
The Case for Regulating EMRs and the New FDA MDDS Rules
My friend Tim Gee has two great posts covering a couple of very important and timely topics. If you haven’t seen them, check out the following: The Case for Regulating…
Department of Defense to Seed $500 Million For Companies to Develop Dual Use Technologies-“Collaboration Not Innovation” DOD Can’t Keep Pace With the Iphone
Well here you have it, an admittance of not being up to speed with technology and again this goes back to the prior administration and their neglect of technology with…
HHS Opens New Website-Health Indicators Warehouse For Community Reported Data
If you want to look up community rankings on selected healthcare areas this may be the place for you. I can see this being useful for students for one in…
An Oxygen Tax
The UK explored selling or leasing forest land to private interests, but encounter some public backlash. “The plans were intended to give the private sector, community and charitable groups greater…
Massachusetts Medical School Wins Contract to Design Health Insurance Exchanges
Massachusetts was the model that was used to design some of the models that were used to create the plan for insurance exchanges. Now when you read this article you…
Will the U.S. Lead on Global Health? Start with Vaccination.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah gave a speech yesterday at the National Institutes of Health, highlighting his aspirations for U.S. leadership on global health. By 2015, among other goals, he hopes…
Obama and Budget Director Certain on Most Facets of ’12 Budget (Just Don’t Ask About Medicare & Medicaid)
President Obama has referred to Medicare and Medicaid as the “two biggest drivers of long term deficit growth”. So it’s no surprise that the 2012 Budget addresses these issues copiously.…
Should the US Destroy its Cache of Smallpox Virus?
Smallpox killed between 300–500 million people during the 20th century. As recently as 1967, 15 million people were infected and 2 million died from smallpox. Amazingly however, a massive, global…
