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Cook's Medical still growing
The company is a long time veteran in the stent business and not too long ago I had an interview posted here on the blog. The interview related to stents, coated with antibiotics. As the business for stents continues to grow, it seems so does Cook. A new products on the horizon is a flexible …
Engage with Grace – The One Slide Project
We make choices throughout our lives - where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. These choices are often a balance between our desires and our means, but at the end of the day, they are decisions made with intent. But when it comes to how we wan…
Testing Children for “Sports” Gene?
This is pretty controversial in essence, if you have ever watched parent already getting pretty steamed up at baseball and soccer games, so next we could easily have some heated discussions on how long each child can play with parents feuding over who’s child has the best gene in the bunch and who w…
The War on Obesity - Natural Orifice Surgery an Option for the Future with no incisions
The Mayo Clinic has been removing gall bladders with this type of surgery, no incision and done through the mouth or other natural body orifices instead of an incision. This type of surgery could stand to make biopsies easier as well as perhaps removing tumors in the future. What is being done i…
Computer technology can cut into personalized patient care with complexity and complicated user interfaces
This article offers some very good insight here and I’ll add my 2 cents worth as well. We all know that documentation, no matter what kinds it is, paper or electronic is mandatory to good healthcare, but technology creates it own set of new issues too, so it’s not a matter of get electronic record…
Heartbeat of a new industry – Stem Cell Storage Banks
One of the founds is no other than James Thomson, an early stem cell pioneer, and the company just raised a few million more with investors, so all biomed is not in the same situation, I think it depends largely on what area of biomed is the focus. So in the future, maybe donate some DNA, grown so…
Mapping brain cancer to find best treatment – Personalized Medicine
A piano player gives up his job, goes to medical school and now has and R and D project with clinical trials for brain cancer. He also works with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Allen Brain Institute who has healthy brain statistical information compiled for comparison. The research involves so…
What is Cyberchondria and Who Has it?
If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases,…
How To Send Email Text Messages To Any Cell Phone (for Free) from your computer
Why am I blogging about SMS on a healthcare blog? Many don’t realize they can send a text message from your computer to a cell phone, and it can be very helpful at times. When you are on your computer, why stop and and pick up the cell phone to send a quick text message? I see this happen all t…
ZietGeist – a movie that discusses the future
This is a bit off the wall, and when you have about 2 hours it’s worth giving a watch. I didn’t agree with everything stated here and anyone watching may not either, but you might come away with some knowledge about technology and some thoughts about the future of where the world is going. There ar…
Prescriptions risk score used to deny health insurance
Lawmakers are going to have a difficult time with this one as they are not technically up to date enough as a whole to comprehend how all of this works in my estimation. with understanding the algorithms of finance and the economy, Wall Street showed us that. Sad, but it is true and this is not th…
German court rules big boobs are not a medical problem
This is a procedure women here in the US undergo all the time for a reduction, but in Germany the court decided no, but again we may not have all the details here as well, but she had been told my doctors to have them reduced as she was suffering from orthopedic and physical problems. What may hav…
Doctor tries to blame hand wash for drunk-driving arrest – the hands didn’t have it
Nobody wants a DUI for being under the influence, and especially during the holiday season coming up, but this physician went the limit as far as trying to explain how all that alcohol just happened to get in his system! He said it was the handwash! Good try but no dice here. There have been sto…
Safety and Effectiveness of Using CyberKnife on Prostate Cancer
When it comes to cancer today there are many different options to look at and discuss with your physician as to which option, depending on your diagnosis and condition would be the best plan, but as this article states, we really won’t know how effective some of the new technology really is until e…
A new source of generic Wellbutrin available soon
Teva Pharma has a generic version, but earlier this year there were some consumer complaints, now the FDA has cleared another manufacturer to produce a generic version, Watson Pharmaceuticals. This is for the 150 mg dose. No word yet as to the availability from the article. BD CORONA, Cali…
With bloggers Is anything Off The Record?
Good post here about bloggers, you never know where we lurk, but more importantly, what are they going to blog about? Well for the most part good bloggers use common sense, but as in anything out there, there’s always exception to the rule. Personally from this picture, I think photographers repre…
High Definition Surgery from Sony with four new products
New products from cameras, printers and monitors can now make surgery room high definition from Sony. There’s a short video at the site with a couple examples and the inside of the body certainly looks a lot different. Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey was the site of a case study. The system…
ProstateCradle.com Launches external Prostate Therapy Device by Enviromax
This is a real product and the price is $49.00 and simple to use, just sit on it. The film is good for a few chuckles as well. The product also boasts some additional benefits, but you can use the links to explore for more information. There are products somewhat similar for women with breast mas…
Taiwan Firms Companies with hospitals in China – New Paradigms?
Part of the incentive here is that the average cost per day in a hospital in Taiwan is $90, compared to $110 in China, so a bit of room for negotiation and pricing strategies. Also what was extremely different here is the fact that the new hospitals are being created by companies known for their m…
Oncology Services Europe enters opens clinical trials in India
Other countries outside the US are also expressing and formulating their clinical trial business in India. Of late there have been a multitude of these reportings, it doesn’t appear India will be lacking in the R and D trial business any time soon. BD The operation will be run by the newly form…
Teva Pharmaceutical raided in European Union antitrust probe
The entire focus is to see whether or not patent laws have been violated and if less expensive generics were in any way stalled from getting to the market place. It all boils down to intellectual-property rights and patient disputes. Interesting that Teva is settling lawsuits and will be supplyin…
Siemens Introduces New Standard Of Care For Breast Ultrasound
The software, Virtual Touch Tissue Quantification, is the first and only application to provide a numerical value related to tissue stiffness at a precise anatomical location. It is not yet available or approved by the FDA for use in the US, but is pending a 501 (k) approval. The unit has been u…
2 Biotech Companies Face Potential Delisting on Nasdaq
Current economic conditions are taking their toll on the biotech industry. Both companies are involved in research and development for cancer drugs and treatments. BD Exact Sciences Corp., a Marlborough company trying to use genomics to develop cancer-screening technology, said today that its c…
Doro Launches HandleEasy 330 & 326i GSM Wireless Handsets in the U.S.
This looks like a real winner here, big screen, big keys! The phones will be available at Centennial Wireless stores in the US, but they are not all over the country, pretty much in the Midwest and Southeast. Store locations here. The phone is already available in several other countries outside…
FDA Delays Johnson and Johnson Antibiotic Over Clinical Trial Data
This one is very interesting so say the least, and it sounds like a software issue of sorts, not enough audit tables or was the data corrupted? Being a geek those are the questions that come to my mind when I hear the word “integrity” , but it may not be the issue at all. Who does the audits sinc…
WebHealthCentre Telemedicine– Free Consults and Radiology interpretations from India
The portal is by patients in 16 countries, including India, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The services are free. There is advertising on the site but not more than any normal website contains these days. Their services are for both patients and physicians and you need to register to begin to …
