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Is Medicare A Good Deal?
Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes…
Medtronic, Infuse and the Senate Finance Committee
Spinal fusions jumped 1,500% among Medicare patients between 2002 and 2007. The…
Sepsis: A Challenge for Patients and Hospitals
I thought I'd carry through on Infection Control again this week and…
Fed Gov’t Approves Covert Study of Access to Primary Care
The federal government is planning what has been termed as a “stealth…
Do Overworked Medical Interns Cause Medical Errors? Let’s Sleep on It.
As of this writing, 5 air traffic controllers have been found asleep…
Bacteria and Mobile Devices
I really see us moving beyond COWs (computers-on-wheels) and an explosion in…
Healthcare Data Security: How Bad is it?
It is really bad, according to a recent survey by the Ponemon…
Commercial Speech Trumps Privacy When It Comes to Drug Marketing
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can’t pass laws like…
Push Accelerates for Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes
By recently releasing guidelines for premarket approval and investigation device exemption of…
Pharma Tapping into the Power of Social Media
Recently quoted in PharmaVOICE in the May 2011 edition, I presented my…
