Seeing Beyond the Physician’s Words to Their Hearts
The latest data at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation shows that there were 17,364 U.S. medical school graduates in 2011. These new doctors were taught the latest techniques in…
New Resources That Will Help Speed Diagnosis of Rare Diseases
The rare community has made huge strides in the 30 years that have elapsed since the Orphan Drug Act was passed. There are more new treatments and there is more…
Death By a Thousand Cuts: Physicians’ Surprising Response to My Wife’s Lung Cancer Recurrence
This is a true story.My wife was about to celebrate her 10th anniversary as a Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer survivor (a pretty remarkable feat) when it happened. This…
11 Social Factors That Contribute to Higher Readmissions
Are readmissions in or out of a hospital’s control? Who should be held accountable for the reasons why an elderly patient returns to the hospital? Are readmissions in or out…
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Patient Privacy in a Modern Health Care Era: Google Hangout on Air
Patient Privacy in a Modern Healthcare Era: Google+ Hangout on Air with David HarlowI had a wide-ranging conversation about the HIPAA and HITECH rules, and health care privacy and security…
RNAi Firm Raises Funds to Develop Drugs That Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes
First published on MedCityNews.com. Just a few years ago, several big companies abandoned their RNAi drug development efforts, finding it difficult to deliver drugs that use the RNAi method for silencing…
Seeing Patients by the Dozen: Group Appointments Are Increasing
The concept of shared medical appointments (one doc seeing several patients) isn’t well known or widely available…yet. That seems to be changing.The pressures of “more patients” and “fewer doctors” (among…
Uninsured Fall Head First Into Gaping Coverage Gap
Analysis Provides State-by-State Estimates of Poor Uninsured Adults Who Fall Into the “Coverage Gap” Under the Affordable Care Act5.2 Million Who Won’t Qualify For Medicaid or Subsidies for Private Insurance…
Scientists Recode Entire Genome of Organism: The Dawn of Synthetic Biology?
Like editors trying to improve a poorly-written book, a team of scientists deleted some 'letters,' and inserted others, working feverishly to recode the entire genome of an organism. In so…
