Fear of Nuclear Accidents Worse than the Accidents Themselves
This is Rob Stein in The Washington Post, via Robin Hanson: Although radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant catastrophe can increase the risk of many cancers and other health…
Race and Sex Matter
What’s interesting about this one is how consistent the racial differences are over more than 25 years. There’s very little closing of any gap between races in either gender,…
Sonitus Medical – Premier Hearing Prosthetic
Sonitus Medical, Inc., a medical device company that manufactures the world’s first non-surgical and removable hearing prosthetic to transmit sound via the teeth, recently announced that it has received CE…
Japan’s Nuclear Fallout: The Health Impact
The before-and-after pictures of the tsunami in Japan are heart-wrenching. And things look to be getting worse. From the New York Times: “With hydrogen gas bubbling up from chemical reactions…
What Mental Health Parity Has Wrought
Psychiatrists now practice like primary care physicians: short meetings and a prescription pad: Dr. Levin, 68, first established a private practice in 1972, when talk therapy was in its heyday……
Insurer Has E-Security Problem
For all of the enthusiasm of President Obama’s digital initiatives within the scope of healthcare reform, the specter of securing data in healthcare related databases is always a required consideration.…
Bullying and Social Hierarchies in Schools
Bullying and other forms of social aggression affect nearly 30% of US students per school year. According to some estimates, up to 160,000 students skip school each day to…
Virus Wipes Out Medical Records at Hospital in India
This is a good warning for hospitals everywhere. According to the story the hospital was short on IT people. As you can see this is a big hospital seeing 15,000…
Waiting for the Robot Wheelchair
I’ve taken a lot of grief in the past for my prediction that robots will play a key role in nursing over the long term. There will still be jobs…
Teenage Cancer Survivor Perseveres by Blogging
When Clarissa was 13 she entered Johns Hopkins Hospital to be treated for relapsed acute leukemia knowing full well that she had only a 40% chance of survival. Today she…
