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New Pure Hydrocodone Pain Killer Drug Being Developed Talking to the FDA About Application-Targeting 2013 For US Market
This is kind of scary as to where we are going with pain killers. One good thing though is that there are many new devices on the market coming out that distribute pain killer right to the affected area for recovery from surgery, wounds and so on and I would take that in a heartbeat versus taking p…
Merry Christmas from the Medical Quack(s)
You didn’t expect to see anything else here did you? Have a great holiday and posts will be a little fewer and less frequent in the next week before the new year. Thanks again to all my readers for another wonderful year! BD Technorati Tags: Ducks,Christmas,holidays,Santa,New Years,hats,Merry …
CEO and founder of the French Poly Beast Implant Prothese Wanted by Interpol
The implants are filled with an unapproved non-medical grade material said to be made for mattresses? The article goes on to say around 40,000 women in the UK have the implants. You wonder how does this go without notice for so long. France stated that all women should have them removed and the U…
FDA Recalls St. Jude’s Riata Defibrillator Leads–Estimated 79,000 Patients in the US Implanted with the Device/Leads
Apparently they found the silicon covering on the leads is the issue and it could shock patients when they don’t need it or not work at all and have a higher failure rate than first anticipated. St. Jude last year stopped selling the leads. BD St. Jude Medical Inc.’s Riata defibrillator lead…
Nurses Hold One Day Strike at Long Beach Memorial and Miller’s Children’s Hospital
The nurses have been without a contract for a few months now and are also talking about working conditions and other items needing attention. One thing I know about the hospital is that “its is busy” like all the time. They did remodeling and shifting things around in the last couple of years to e…
US Senator Doesn’t Want Us Ingesting Caffeine With Aeroshot Breathable Caffeine
The product says you get the same amount of caffeine as you would in a Starbucks cup of coffee which seems harmless enough. Ok so you take 3 or 4 snorts, some like me drink that many cups daily anyway. If you really like caffeine, you can bathe in it, suck it down in lollypops and more. There are…
The doctor no problem here with working on a second career! This so funny and I think one of his best as he an entire collection. Use the link at the bottom to go his site and see more of the rapping hospitalist. Pumpkin colored ensure…Santa pulled his central line…. BD ";" src="http://lh3.ggp…
Shell Practices that Defraud Medicare–One Good Reason to Clean Up The Flawed Data on the Internet-Hunting Ground for Thieves
If you read the Medical Quack often enough this is fairly common topic that comes up for me to write about as it is such a big problem. The “shell” practices as they are called can sometimes find provider IDs online, for “dead” doctors and then they go to work billing. It really makes for a huge p…
One more Johnson and Johnson Recall-Motrin That May Not Work-Where’s the BarCodes to Help Consumers, Drug Chains, Pharmacists, the FDA and So On…
Well they did do a trial on bar codes for baby wipes which give product information but in case of a recall, they information could be updated quickly. I realize the company is delving deep into quality control but gee look at the other side with consumers and everyone else involved. A collaborate…
Massachusetts Nurses Association Protesting Private Equity Company Cerberus Who Operates Steward Healthcare With More Concern for Profits Than Care
Many nurses made the trip to the Cerberus offices in New York to promote an “Occupy” type demonstration with discontent over many working and pension conditions since Steward, who is owned by Cerberus took over and purchased several hospitals in Massachusetts. One item in particular pointed out was …
Prestige Brands to Acquire 17 Consumer Over the Counter Brands From Glaxo
This seems to make sense as Prestige already had a large number of consumer products already and that appears to be their primary business. The over the counter products seem to a bit of a mixed bag with both drugs and other types of consumer products. BD IRVINGTON, N.Y., Dec 20, 2011 (BUSIN…
Hawaii Medical Center Closes Emergency Rooms As New Buyer for the Facility Fell Through And Facilities Will Be Closed When All Patients Have Been Transferred
Back in October the hospital stated they may have to close and the ER rooms are the first stage of this with paramedics stationed outside and there are no doctors on staff to see anyone. About 1000 employees are affected and patients are being transferred to other hospitals. As you can read below,…
HealthVault Free Mobile App For Windows Phone Is Out from the Zune Store To Download & Got My Ducks Updated
This is pretty neat and loaded it up on my phone and off I go. It’s pretty straight forward and works fine. I didn’t have a lot of time to go through all of the screens yet but will do later one. The screens are very similar to what you see on the computer just smaller and if you are used to mo…
FDA Issues a Cease and Desist Sperm Order To A California Man Who Was Giving It Away on the Internet To Couples Who Could Not Afford to Pay But Wanted a Child
That’s right you can’t give this away, you have to pay for it . This is what the FDA says but their grounds for checking in was the fact that they were not sure whether or not the many was complying with regular tests for sexually transmitted diseases. The man says he gets tested and I would almos…
“Generic Medical Devices” FDA Approved Doctor Preferred Orthopedic Implants Made in the USA Costing 50% Less
This is kind of a “no brainer” as far as the cost side as we all know we pay less for generic drugs so the same applies here with a few other bonus points with the fact that doctors and surgeons are involved in the processes to create “what works”. Currently the company focus is on orthopedic devic…
EyeNetra–Eye Exams in the Palm of Your Hand With a Smart Phone Using Similar Optical Technology as With Bar Codes–Video
This company has evolved out of the MIT labs. This is amazing that for as little as $2.00 you can attach a piece of hardware to your smart phone for a quick eye exam. This is not going to replace the optometrist any time soon but can be used anywhere to calculate your vision. Not too long ago MI…
An Unexpected Place for Healing for a Young Woman in a Senior Citizens Home-TED Video
This is a great video that Ramona Pierson tells about her recovery at a Senior Citizens home. She was a young woman who had been I an induced coma due to being hit by a car. She even adds some humor here where she can and talks about the wisdom of the seniors. One comment was really cute about …
Wellpoint to Bankroll Use of IBM Watson at Cedar Sinai Medical Center to Research Cancer Data/Information To Provide Guidance for Physicians
After having made their initial investment with IBM, Wellpoint is looking for areas to use the new “big data” capabilities for processing information. This could be a good thing here as long as you leave the billing side out of all of this as that’ a mess right now with ICD10 coding coming up. For…
Flawed Data–Mined by Corporations Online Provides Background Checks Riddled With Errors–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Part 7
Slowly but surely this blog is becoming the “Quack Data” reference I feel. Here’s another situation to where with current data sharing and aggregation to where we have yet another case of “discrimination by the algorithms” for the 99% group and of course I’m right in there with everyone else. When…
