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Pinhole-Glasses - Help Improve your vision inexpensively Something worth a try and looking at...for $19.95 a pair it's definitely worth a try...and they even include the shipping charges...with...
FDA Seeks Civil Penalties From Calif. Device Maker - Advanced Bionics The issue goes back to hearing aides shipped in 2005 and 2006...failure to notify of potential risks appears to be the case...BD The U.S...
Doctors support universal health care: survey 59%...up ten percent from the year 2002..more feel the for profit fragmented system obstructs more than it promotes good health care...and ...
Windows Vista SP1 Toilet Paper - It's really available now This was just too funny not to post...in Japan of course...BD The Japanese are simply hyping Vista SP1 release . I was just surprised to...
In Defense of the Electronic Medical Records Developer/Vendor This is something I have been wanting to write about for a while and today's the day to finally express a couple of my own opinions abou...
Riding the Hospitalist Boom to an IPO Good video explaining the role of today's hospitalist....and the study states this business is fragmented to a degree, just like the re...
New Internet ID Card Prevents Online Fraud Look for this to be out as soon as this summer. With the recent post about how easy it is for a hacker to collect your RFID information fr...
State ignores law requiring annual Medi-Cal payment studies - California Does the State get to ignore or bypass the law....California Medical Association doesn't think this is the case....potential lawsuit in...
Vytorin Pain May Be Abbott's Gain Will Abbott Labs be successful with a combination drug? BD What’s bad for Merck and Schering-Plough may be good for Abbott Laboratories...
German hackers threaten to publish Merkel's fingerprints Not all folks around the world are supportive of new biometric capabilities...German passports require a biometric chip to identify an indi...
Celebrate National Doctors' Day Every year, March 30th is National Doctor's Day...yes they do have a day of their own! Say thanks to your physician today for his cont...
Hawaii's Largest Insurer, HMSA, Plans Rate Hike 12.8 percent increase....how will the employers continue to afford the increases and provide benefits down the road...might see more of this...
Tapping Into the Code of Life With Science - Some of this is here today...not science fiction...medical technology is on the rise... There are folks walking around with bladders that have been created through this process and it is no longer science fiction....how long be...
Big Insurers Pay for Online Doctor Visits With a plan such as RelayHealth, that has the potential to integrate with Electronic Medical Records and facilitate e-prescribing , a data ...
Allergan and J&J Pump Up Weight-Loss Surgery Gastric banding...have reported on this in the past...is it safer overall than a complete gastric bypass surgery....the pharmaceutical busi...
Researchers identify a gene responsible for Lou Gehrig's disease Hope on the horizon with more genetic information available...BD A team of Canadian and French researchers has identified a novel gene re...
Lost in the labyrinth - Massachusetts Insurance law... Some are not re-enrolling in the Massachusetts health plan...are they criminals? How do you get blood from a turnip? BD "So far, ...
How reliable are defibrillators - they can keep going after you are gone... After the patient passed away, the defibrillator just kept on going...a magnet was needed to disarm the device...the gift that keeps on giv...
'It's a bad therapy, but it's all we've got' Physician wishing there were better alternatives to treat adult sickle cell disease...BD "I challenge you to find any one of my pati...
Is an HSA worth it? A blog from a 25 year old debtor who makes way too much money to be in this much debt...asks the question of whether or not he will ever be...
Britons get stressed without mobile phones: survey Now we have a new source of stress.... could apply to us in the US as well...BD Over half of Britons feel anxious when they lose their ...
Some Total Body-brand products recalled Web page has a listing of the products affected...BD The FDA said the recall involves Total Body Formula in tropical orange and peach ...
Quotes from Schering-Plough's CafePharma message board What do Schering and Spitzer have in common? Both had high-priced whores who turned on them in the end. Almost every single key opinion le...
U.S. Health System Should Not Rely On Employer- Opinion He makes a good point...will the employees still be there to reap any benefits or will they have moved on to another company? BD Accordi...
First Unionized Hospital In Texas - Houston RNs Vote To Join Nation's Largest RN Organization We all know how strong the representation is with the California Nurses Association...appears Texas is working toward the same...BD In a...
Joint Statement On FDA Investigation Of Singulair From The AAAAI And ACAAI These 2 groups state there is not substantial data that links suicide with the use of Singulair...BD Leadership from the American Academy...
Toshiba Receives FDA Clearance For Two CT Clinical Applications In one instance, one scan can be done instead of 2 separate procedures...software available for purchase for both...BD Toshiba America Me...
When Egg Donors Have Genetic Disease Good questions arise...if the eggs have genetic diseases...something that we can now track that was unavailable before...new procedures nee...
Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting) ...IT and IS, CIOs and CEOs...Quit Chopping Trees to find the answer... This is one of my absolute pet peeves to discuss...there are tons of articles about getting physicians to buy in to new technology and YES w...
The Doctor and the Rep Cute Video...what if some of the roles were reversed? BD http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bqk4CEYdxgA&feature=related
Future of personal health care - Concept by Microsoft A couple weeks ago I posted some pictures and now here's the video showing Microsoft's concept of future healthcare....from the MIX0...
Cancer patient has PSP stolen en route to chemotherapy treatment Disgusting...but the police department bought him a new unit and they got his medical records too....BD There's depressing gaming s...
LA County negotiating to reopen Martin Luther King Hospital But they would only have enough staff to care for 77 patients...BD LOS ANGELES—County officials are negotiating with a small hospital to...
The Medical Quack - Blog Radio - Dr. Anonymous Each week I am trying to focus and bring attention to the resources on this page in the right hand column . Another resource listed on this...
'A Race to the Starting Line': Diagnosing What's Holding Biotechnology Back As the article states, it is more of an understanding now instead of hit and miss diagnosis based on genetics....both better diagnostic and...
Personalized Medicine...Big Pharma Business Models Restructure Companies like Genentech are already working in this direction, especially with genetic research related to cancer...will the big blockbust...
Will sinus surgery work? One woman's story on sinus surgery...how a new procedure has changed much of the methodology...painless....compared to routine sinus pr...
SmartCase, Inc. - Medical Information Management - Software as a Service for Legal Cases for referencing specific medical records New software to allow the legal profession to review and share medical records relative to a trial or court appearance...software as as a s...
Israel courts medical tourists Israel is also a world leader in many types of technology and medical technology is no different...thus far though there are not many websi...
Area Kaiser patients less satisfied than many at other hospitals In southern California Hoag Hospital in Orange county was rated the highest and Kaiser at the other end of the spectrum....2500 hospitals ...
Weird Hospital - Los Angeles Finally decided to have a civil service exam for the 6 candidates...basically a charity position that nobody seems to want...BD Southern...
Patients rate local hospitals Find your local hospital in the data base... Site is located here ..." This tool provides you with information on how well the hospit...
NY to Develop Unified Medical Records Will be interesting to follow this story and see where it goes...BD Gov. David Paterson announced Friday $105 million in grants to help ...
Pfizer Exec Arrested On Child Pornography Charges Not good press for Pfizer...more work for the forensics it sounds like with checking some audit trails and other data areas if he signed on...
Is Depression Contagious? Sure I think so, we become a product of the environment and the company we keep...there's still much about our emotional make up that w...
Dennis Quaid Acts on Medical Errors He's right, there's no "take 2" in healthcare ...and wants to go to court...the article states the hospital is considerin...
Seeing Beyond Changing Skin Color The "Michael Jackson" disease...more information on the unusual skin disease...perhaps some new genetics studies will shed more l...
Blogging Phone in Japan Goes on Sale This could stand to represent a real change to the blogging world if it takes off...complete with the capability to create an instant video...
Texan faces charges over snake vodka Questions over the medicinal values of rattlesnakes... but not in this case...rattlesnake in a bottle of vodka is not seen with any medicin...
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center Employs Actors And Robots Breathing mannequins with heart tones, palpable pulses, etc. with software that tests decision making skills for medical students...cost of...
Social Security Disability - New Debit Card, Going Paperless Debit card from Social Security...article discusses the pros and cons...Social Security recipients participating in the Direct Express prog...
Paul Levy CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Great interview ...I didn't even know this existed until last evening;....transparency...accountability....interview from Holland...ve...
Waking Up Is Hard To DO Hey these guys can really sing! The Laryngospasms.....BD http://youtube.com/watch?v=WOrjcLJ2IE0 and one more...... Breathe... http...
CRM - Microsoft Dynamics Healthcare Presentation New presentation relating directly to health care ...bring everything under one roof...works well with Office as it was designed that way....
