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What’s better than $4.00 Generic Antibiotics – Free Antibiotics
In some areas, there are some available for free, Giant Food is running it for 3 months, and each retailer’s plan is different; however, if you need other medications, you may want to do some price checking as they could be a bit higher. The generics are limited, so if they are not found on the fr…
What’s in the “K” – Vitamin K or Potassium?
This is a good observation of perhaps how medications could be confused and not administered properly if mixed up, and instructions not read properly. The Happy Hospitalist analyzes the two after hearing a patient discharge conversation and it appeared to be a potential mix up on medications that a…
Hilarious! I hope it doesn’t come to this, although it seems pretty close at times. BD “The money you give won't just save a life, it'll save a lifestyle.” ";" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SVyOU8-X43I/AAAAAAAANuQ/S-LNC6FmFOU/video038ebeb613bb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-styl…
Surgery Room goes Wireless with High-Definition Surgical Displays
The display is capable of transmitting surgical video with no perceptible lag or interference throughout the entire operating room, which means a few less sets of cables or wires in the OR. Soon, HD surgeries may grown to be a common occurrence with displays. BD SANTA CLARA, CA - AMIMON Inc. is …
Well if you can’t beat them, join in, seems to be the direction today of personal health records. On the first of December, United announced their Optum Health website for members to use for personal health records and to find and review medical information. As mentioned before, the site will a…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Wishes
Best wishes to all and thanks once again for tuning in to the Medical Quack this year! …
Sex Chip is to stir up the libido – the latest technology with implanted medical devices?
First thought here, is Viagra in trouble? There are more implanted devices appearing on the market and a chip for sex? What next? According to the article this is still very much in the research stage and of course no word on clinical trials, but gee, hopefully we won’t someday be dependent on a…
Medical Quack on Fox News this week – Clouds and Fraud
Thanks once again to everyone who tunes in here. Will be spotty posting the next week as I am trying to work in a little holiday vacation. Madoff Scam Hits Harvard Medical School Grants and affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center Genentech Embraces Cloud Computing subscription service from Goog…
Microsoft Start Up Zone – Help for Start Up Companies
What happens when you don’t answer your tweets on Twitter, well you end up with your video over here. Actually this is a good video from Woody Pewitt, Microsoft Dot Net Evangelist in southern California who is now working with start up companies with software and all kinds of other support offered …
Implanted Medical Device to Control Blood Pressure
The device is still under clinical trials at present and does require surgery that takes 2-3 hours. Perhaps soon we may have a choice on how to cover hypertension, device or drugs someday. There are around 300 patients participating at present. Additional information on trials can be found at the…
Cell Phone Detects HIV, Malaria and other diseases
A cell phone with a camera right off the shelf was able to do this. Looks pretty simple from the picture and amazing work from UCLA. BD Talk about multi-functionality - just when you thought that cell phones can more or less do everything under the sun, along comes a bunch of scientists at …
FDA's New Warning About 25 Weight-Loss Products that may contain controlled substances
You could possibly be getting more than you bargained for with some of the products according to the FDA. They recommend to quit taking the products and consult your physician if needed. BD (CBS) The FDA warned consumers Monday to neither consume nor purchase a slate of more than 25 different …
Pay for performance (P4P)--How's my driving? – Observations from a Patient
I just wanted to take this post and republish here as the writer was kind enough to reference one of my posts from a coupe months back. The one message I see here is that event patients are beginning to wonder about pay for performance as well. Nice write up and opinion. BD The first time I he…
Medical Home gives doctors time with patients
One success story of how the Medical Home is working for one primary practice doctor. This is a pilot study to see how it could work by reducing the number of patients seen and a negotiated rate with insurers instead of the fee per service arrangement. Somewhat similar to an HMO capitation arrang…
Employees Want To Give These CEOs Coal For Christmas – Genentech tops the Nice List, Amgen on the Naughty CEO list - Survey
This is an interesting view on how employees viewed their CEOs from the poll. Amgen shown on the “Naughty List” while Genentech faired at the top on the “Nice CEO” list. Also of interest was to see Goldman Sachs on the nice list, a surprise of sorts. BD Employee-reviews site Glassdoor.com…
In a related story today an article discusses their new portal that has plans to be incorporated with QuikenHealth in 2009 and will become a Microsoft HealthVault Partner. If it is connected with HealthVault for the convenience of importing claim and other information, that portion could be good …
Ultra Violet Smart Ring – It Collects and Reports your exposure times and values
This doesn’t look bad either, and has a unisex design. So at the end of the day, one more device to connect via USB to your computer! This looks like something that should in time connect to a personal health record too. Once you synch with the computer, you will have a full report of all your ex…
Obama Names Lander, Varmus as Science and Technology Advisors
Genomics experts and other science individuals are finding their way into the new administration, sounds promising! BD NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – President-elect Barack Obama has selected Broad Institute Founding Director Eric Lander and former NIH Director Harold Varmus to serve as co-chairs f…
Maryland Hospitals Take Patients to Court
Maryland Hospitals appear to be pretty aggressive, and below from a prior post, some hospitals put debt up for auction. BD Hospitals Put Patients' Debt Up for Auction How much will debt pay? With an auction, winning bidders may get to keep all of the money they collected as well. Hospital’s ha…
Interpreting the Genome - understanding all the data
This is a very good point, getting all the data organized into a fashion where it can be used and analyzed. Back a few months ago when I interviewed Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, of Helicos BioSciences I asked the same question, and also if each interpretation would be…
Myriad Genetics Launches Cancer Personalized Medicine Product - Prezeon Test
Briefly, the test determines if the PTEN gene is functioning properly, as it is a tumor suppressor gene that is linked with cell regulation. If patients have a low level of the protein, studies have shown a progression of the cancer, while if the levels remain higher, the less chances of the cance…
Well sure everyone is hurting, but don’t forget the big reserves (money that is not for operating, etc. just sits there for just in case circumstances) these folks all have too, maybe a trillion or better if you added them all up? Also, it has not stopped Blue Cross from having a bunch of money to…
Madoff Scam Hits Harvard Medical School Grants and affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center
Diabetes research projects may go on hold. This is sad that the Foundation is having to close and that renovation projects may be delayed or put on hold as well. In the year 2007 the foundation showed a$952 million market value. It makes one wonder if there will be more of these individuals exp…
Genentech Embraces Cloud Computing subscription service from Google
Genentech is a large biotech pharmaceutical company in San Francisco and the the largest company to subscribe to the web based “cloud” products from Google, however Google is not able to offer a 100% solution and departments will be able to choose between using some of the traditional products from…
Chernobyl Children's Project International – Global Charity and Volunteer Site
This is a special post and all of us will probably remember the horrible incident from years back at Chernobyl. We are all facing some economic setbacks and problems here this holiday season as well, but take a look and see what remains from this incident of years ago. A friend of mine volunteers…
