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Carmichael: Health Guaranteed- New Book Addressing Healthcare in the US... " Read it twice and call your congressman in the morning."... maybe what we have been waiting for...someone from the medical side...
Duke University -Learning Science with Team-Based Learning and a Tablet PC Great story on using Tablet PCs in the biology teaching and learning environment.. this instructor get's it...and on top of this, the u...
US cancer researchers attack federal budget cuts " However, the NCI director did not hold out much hope in the upcoming presidential elections, saying the slate of available candidate...
Five of the World's Most Technologically Advanced Hospitals Nice article and very informative about the technology being used in these 5 hospitals, but somewhat surprised that El Camino hospital didn...
Can a new blood test enable personalized chemotherapy? We have all heard of personalized medicine, but now the potential of personalized chemotherapy for some forms of cancer... the clinical st...
Company that makes medical devices for kids enjoys its own growth spurt One other growing area, medical devices for kids...this company creates orthopaedic devices for children and works closely with the Clevela...
Hospital agrees to $1-million settlement for Patient Dumping Over the last 2 years, there have been more than 50 cases of alleged patient dumping...the last being a hospital in Orange County, CA...als...
We have all seen the Robo Doctors either at the hospital or on the web, but here's a new twist that I couldn't help but posting... ...
Taking computer chat to a whole new level - Wheelchairs We have already seen cars that allow us to talk, and the next level is wheelchairs for the disabled that one will be able to speak commands...
A New Clinical Trial To Examine TORISEL Plus Avastin For First-Line Treatment Of Advanced Kidney Cancer Big pharma continues to move in the direction of biotech investments and clinical research in cancer research...here with Wyeth, Roche and ...
Chocolate - Good for Diabetic Health - Study More studies on healthy chocolate...more research is needed, but this looks to be promising... it's all about Cocoa Flavonols... and th...
Blogging--It's Good for You and your Health... Not only does it have the potential to make one feel better, but think of the knowledge one gains in the process as well...according to the...
One Note 2007 EMR Suite Updated - The Ablet Factory From the Ablet Factory, and I feature the updates on the blog as changes are made...The Ablet Factory is great for the small practice on a...
Pharmacopeia Advances Strategic Plan to Focus Resources - Decreasing workforce by 15% PRINCETON, N.J., May 30 -- Pharmacopeia (Nasdaq: PCOP - News), an innovator in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therape...
Bikini-clad women make men impatient And now for one of the strange studies of the day ...I guess it states that men should go buy a a bra...not to wear, but carry it around wi...
Schering-Plough and Merck have managed to fool an estimated 75% of U.S. physicians. The stories and concerns over Vitorin and Zetia continue...but the number of prescriptions are beginning to dwindle...BD Today in an SEC...
Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails Hard Hat Area: Ruby on Rails, Iron Ruby, Light Ruby...Iron Ruby to work with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation....if you are...
Governor's Proposed Cuts May Hurt Entire System, Not Just Medi-Cal Would the impending Medi-Cal cuts lead to an entire meltdown of the health care system in California...the CMA feels this could very well h...
Flip-Flops, High Heels, or Bare Foot.... What's on our feet today...interesting studies showing that some of today's footwear can cause discomfort and issues...still love m...
The Efficient MD -Eavesdrop on Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter One MD discusses using Twitter ....several others are beginning to use the platform and I have signed up but have not added the Medical Qu...
Ten Dumb Things About Medicare Here's the first 2...visit the site and read the rest...some good points made here..BD Reimbursement - At least in my field, it is ne...
Zynx Offers Decision Support for Chemo Real Time Peer to Peer information...allows the clinician to drill down quickly to study and read the desired results...used by 1400 hospit...
UK Drops NHS Contractor Fujitsu - Cerner Continues Cerner, as a subcontractor will continue with other areas inclduing the Choose and Book portion of the network, the national scheduling inf...
Scripps gets $20M to speed research to patients - San Diego The focus to to bring biomedical research benefits and information to patients...and of course working more with understanding genomics...B...
US soldiers in high-tuberculosis areas face new epidemic: false positives Retesting is occurring as up to 30 to 100 percent of the tests show negative...we experience the same thing with some virus detection softwa...
Body's baking soda used to catch cancer early - MRI New technique in the works from GE with clinical trials, measuring levels of baking soda that live naturally in the body...MRI can pick up ...
GE Healthcare IT Announces Kryptiq E-Prescribing This is already offered under the GE portal for secure messaging and document management...now GE will exclusively sell Script Messenger , ...
Fox News worker sues over bedbugs in NY office Bed Bugs go to work too...someone else using the workstation is the culprit it appears from the article...now there are bigger issues with ...
Surgeons Oppose Plan to Pay More for Primary Care Surgeons have a mind set of their own and is somewhat of a "poke" inside health care, but this time they don't want to be on ...
Online sites pump up organ donor registrations This is good news all the way around...BD The number of Americans registering to be organ donors is on the rise, thanks in part to a sur...
Grassley's War on Cancer Patients Good insight and commentary here from the "inside" track...are members of Congress helping or stalling the progression of the FDA...
Market Grows for Surgical Robots The DaVinci system and other robotics slated to grow at more than 25% in the upcoming years...I post many articles here as they become avai...
FDA's foot dragging hurts Canada's biotech firms The entire world somewhat looks to the US FDA approval process...which is one of the best accredited, but again due to lack of technology, ...
Wacky World of Generics...Timing is Everything... Who's on first, the story of the generic pipeline...sometimes generic drugs also get a "stay" of time like the big pharma folk...
Ear Scope GXL - High-End Endoscope Now you can see what is in your ears while cleaning too....interesting device as it can go beyond just use for the ears...BD The Ear S...
Prison for Man With H.I.V. Who Spit on a Police Officer Luckily none of the officers contracted HIV, but it shows how society has changed and how we look at the science behind the virus...BD D...
Pfizer Counterattacks on Smoking-Cessation Drug Chantix Pfizer to combat the bad press from the FAA...and more...BD A week after Pfizer’s smoking-cessation drug Chantix got knocked around for ...
Electronic records improve the quality of health care but high cost still a barrier One hospital allocates a portion of their computer servers memory to another hospital or to a private practice MD...the cost of renting spa...
Human Genome Project Head to Step Down Geneticist Francis Collins moves on after mapping the human genome and seeing a pet project legislation barring genetic discrimination beco...
Hospital replaces Microsoft Exchange for Linux-based clone PostPath Server, which is Linux and is pretty much a clone of Exchange.. licensing had to be in the picture for savings here..and it works ...
Centinela Hospital's cuts create anxiety in South L.A. Hospitals owned by Prime are not bound to the normal contracts, thus they have the option of billing higher rates and charges...some servic...
Favrille Closes upon Drug Trial Failure... As a small Bio Tech company, they may only get one chance to make it as this story tells...and the creditors will soon be a the doors...the...
From Blockbuster Medicine to Personalized Medicine This is a good article from Medscape and well worth reading...you will need to set up a log on account to read the entire article...basical...
Connecticut Sues McKesson on Racketeering Charges Charges include violating anti-trust laws as well as racketeering....BD BOSTON (Reuters) May 28 - The state of Connecticut sued McKesson...
HMO must pay for child's cancer treatment This time it took the state's supreme court to make a ruling..BD MADISON, Wis. - A health maintenance organization was wrong to refu...
Sneaky Attempt to Impose Medicaid Regulation UPDATE: A couple other sites have also picked up on the attempt made by Leavitt...judge found ample reason to overturn the rushed throug...
Bill would let pharmacies sell patient medical records - CA From another standpoint...more paper to throw away...right now I have a garbage can right next to my mail box to get rid of all the other c...
Microsoft Increases Grant Funding for HealthVault As I posted earlier last month, the HealthVault Solutions meeting is coming up next month...Microsoft is dolling out grant money for develop...
"Specialty" Pharma Companies Band Together When small companies can't be heard, they band together like this group of Specialty drug companies so they can be heard in Washington....
How the new Stark rules affect you - Medical Economics I have had some questions lately about the Stark laws, so this is a good article form Medical Economics that will present quite a few answe...
Facebook, Twitter, new marketing tools for Pharma Interesting article...I don't think blogs are dead news yet by any means, but John Mack makes some very interesting points about how i...
New And Improved Drugs? Pharma and the "Me Too" Concept At Kaiser Permanente they do not include Invega on the list of drugs, as the active ingredient of Invega is derived from that of Risperdal....
