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“Healthcare Watchdog” - New Consumer Advocacy Site Opens
The company was started of course out of the result of the founder having to fight an insurance company for payment of his own bills, and it was an out of network charge. We all know what that is all about with the lawsuits beginning to pile up over the data base that was used for 8-9 years to cal…
Well I do have to really give the President an “A” for this approach, as nobody seems to responding to anything else, so hey jump on the bandwagon and let it roll. We have health insurance companies investing in the same technology today with “behavioral underwriting” with using complex and compli…
Why “Geek” is Chic – Learning to Become Less Naive and Less Ignorant
This is certainly an article I could not let pass me up here without comment. I can’t begin to discuss all the teasing and negative impact that I get for pursuing knowledge, it has gone on forever. I think of myself as imperfect as the rest of us and always being open to improve and learn. I’m st…
George Church Harvard Scientist Discusses the World of the Personal Genome Project – The Basis for Personalized Medicine from Someone Who Lives with Dyslexia
I have featured this video before here at the Quack and it is well worth another look on how the world of personalized medicine is growing, based on the PGP (Personal Genome Project) from it’s start to where we are with this knowledge today. George Church has a great partner in his wife too, who i…
FDA Met with Painkiller Pharma Companies to Deal With Abuse To Develop Risk Management Plans
Wait a minute, don’t these same companies have business models to sell painkillers? As you can see pharma suggested more education, which is always a good thing and there has been talk along with one company submitting a reformulated version of a drug to the FDA for approval. Pharma no doubtedly w…
Study – Men Who Stare At Female Breasts Have Lower Blood Pressure, Better Circulation And Will Live Longer
Don’t you just love studies anymore! There was actual group of 200 men who participated. There is not a listing of any females though providing the necessary view so I guess this was looking at any, you think? The study didn’t appear to define what method of looking so fully clothed and exposed …
U.S. Halts Airlift of Haiti Quake Victims – Dispute Over Cost
Here we go, back to healthcare costs, when helping other countries now too. Some of the patients airlifted to Florida have insurance, some are eligible and some don’t have insurance. Florida is struggling with their own hospital costs with taking care of us at present and still taking in patients …
Meteorite Part Two – Lawyers Are Involved to Determine Ownership and Smithsonian Has It On Hold
This was a pretty neat story until now, the owners of the building where the doctor’s lease space now claims the meteorite belongs to them and is making plans to recoup the rock from the Smithsonian. In case you missed the original post here’s the link and there’s a couple videos that tell the stor…
FDA Directs US Marshalls to Seize 77 Ozone Generators – Ozone Medical Devices
The company in October originally refused the request of the FDA not to search the factory and then they returned later to seize the devices. In some countries this therapy is legal, but not in the United States and the FDA warns against some of the products use due to infections, etc. that could …
Edwards LifeSciences/Baxter Recalling the Aquarius Hemodialysis System – Software Modification Required
The devices are used on a 24 hour a day basis for patients with life-threatening kidney disease to keep fluid levels even. This is not a big recall unless it is you or someone you know depending on this device. As with many of devices today, the problem lies in software and an update is being iss…
Do Algorithms Run Your Life – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Commits $10 Billion for Vaccine Research Over the Next 10 Years To Use Them Wisely And Save Lives – Davos 2010
This is a double hit here today from the Davos World Economic Forum. They are discussing which Algorithms are running our lives, check out the meaning of the word here on the blog, it’s smack dab in the center if you don’t know what these are! Microsoft was built on them and so are so many of the …
Pee Wee Gets an IPAD (Video)
More IPad humor, great video! He’s confused a bit on the female version. BD Technorati Tags: Ipad, Humor, Pee Wee, technology, need a laugh, Apple …
Southwest Airlines Medical Transportation Grant Program – 1.2 Million for 29 Hospitals
Additional hospitals were added this year to include hospitals in Philadelphia and Denver. If I were running a hospital, this might be something I would look into and apply for to help those who need to travel for healthcare procedures and treatments! The program has been in existence for 3 years …
Little Progress on Fighting Healthcare Fraud – Look At Who’s Getting the Anti-Fraud Contracts
Health Insurance and preventing fraud need to work together and you almost need some non profit organizations to have this be successful and truly look out for the consumer interest. What are we doing here, awarding contracts to companies that have created a backlog of legal court cases and potenti…
Technology in Use at El Camino Hospital – Mountain View, CA (Video)
When it comes to using technology and having a facility that has all the modern conveniences, who wouldn’t want to work here if you are on the clinical side of healthcare. This is another view of how things operate and what I like seeing is the robot, making deliveries to the nurses station. In ad…
