The ROBODOC surgery system was approved by the FDA back in August of 2008 and Sutter Hospitals in northern California are the first to use t...
Medical Tourism In Israel Growing As US Citizens Explore Cost Comparisons
This is another area of healthcare that keeps coming up in conversation as well as US citizens and those from other countries exploring alte...
Kaiser Permanente and Their “Giant” Genome Project Gets Underway – NIH Grant With Work in Progress
Many members of Kaiser have been asked if they want to participate in this study, and the results of which are going to be used for genomic ...
Telemedicine Working in Prisons And With Oil Rigs to Provide Video Visits with the Doctor – Not Just for Developing Countries
Due to what is going on in the news today with oil rigs today everyone can relate to having a doctor remotely available for workers far out ...
China Continues Push for Basic Universal Healthcare – Presidential Statement
It is interesting to hear and see what is being done in other countries from time to time and in China the President wants to ensure that al...
FDA Alert Product Recall Intravenous Products From Claris Lifesciences Also Marketed Under the Names of of Sagent, Pfizer and West-Ward - Contamination
Two of the drugs are in the antibiotic area and one other is used to treat nausea relating to chemotherapy treatment and post surgery. Lu...
We Don’t Need Any More Medical Records Systems – Code For Cures And Move Over to Life Sciences To Hack Genes
This point was made by Juan Enriquez, managing director at Boston-based Excel Venture Management, and a director at biotech Synthetic Genomi...
Dental Implants Using Body’s Own Stem Cells To Grow Them – Regenerative Dentistry In the Works
Ok put me at the head of the line for this. I have gone through and have dental implants so I know the drill here and what makes this even ...
Teva To Stop Manufacturing Propofol – With No US Manufacturers Left FDA Approved Import From Europe
If this drug name sounds familiar, think back a short while to Michael Jackson, this was the drug that he had at home, used only in hospital...
More Children’s Medicine at J and J Recalled – We Need Ability to Scan Products With Our Phones - Be Sure to Vote
As consumers this would be nice to be able to scan products and not have to worry about missing a recall post somewhere on the news. There...
City of Hope And Doctors Dispute with Law Suits - Board Representation Issues At Hand And Of Course the Money
As the article mentions here there’s a lot at stake with many other hospitals in California sitting by and taking notes to see what the outc...
Business Intelligence Software Breakdown At Beckman Coulter – Algorithms gone Rogue and Data House Repair
This is a good article to read on how things in the data houses get mangled without appropriate planning, so sometimes those reporting syste...
McKesson Is the Next Company To Raise Investor Dividends – Does Portfolio Management Mean Better Care?
The CEO says they are committed “to our portfolio” approach with capital development”. Does this mean that better healthcare and patients g...
Why Can’t Safety Rules and Laws Keep Up With Biotech – Congress And Others Can’t Keep Up with Technology
How do you create laws to protect citizens in areas where you are not familiar? That’s a very good question and today members of Congress ...