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German Researchers Use iPS Skin Cells to Correct Gene Defect in Mice With Liver Disease–Mice Were Cured
iPS stem cells can be reprogrammed to take on another identity and in this case it looks like the mice with liver disease were cured with using their own skin stem cells. The ISP cells were returned to an embryonic state and corrected the gene defect. This is the first time that a living organism…
NH Hospitals Sue the State Over Medicaid Cuts and One Lays off 180 Employees
One hospital, Elliot is laying off employees and there are 10 hospitals in the lawsuit. Quite a few other programs are also being disconnected. Elliott Hospital is due to received 17 million less. It was interesting to hear in the video with the CEO saying that it would be better to just forget…
Medical Students and Doctors Protest in Israel Demanding Improvements in the Healthcare System
Once in a while it’s time to take a break and see what is occurring in other countries and in this case it’s Israel doctors and medical students wanting improvements in their medical system, sounds familiar with a bit of what we have here. The medical students said they would not begin their reside…
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Drug Recalled Due To Radiation–CardioGen-82
The active ingredient is generated by isotopes and the cause it not yet clear and the FDA stated it has not ruled out manufacturing facilities in their research. Doctors should stop using the drug according to the FDA warning. BD Positron emission tomography (PET) scan drug CardioGen-82 may ca…
FDA Finds U.S. Cetero Research Falsified Records About Drug Studies-Probably Hidden in the Algorithms Used for Reporting
How else does this happen when you look at an algorithmically created report on the studies and then find no physical evidence? It’s those algos again and some have learned how to work them as they can create a a visual used to be convincing for what ever the occasion calls for. 1900 instances sou…
Kaiser Permanente Launches Mobile Application–KP Locator for the Iphone
This is great since Kaiser is expanding to more states than just California. With the multiple locations this makes it easy for patients to find them. This works for Kaiser as they have so many facilities and makes it simple and I wonder when it will be used for additional mobile platforms. They…
How Algorithms Shape Our World–TED Talks Kevin Slavin–Writing the Unreadable And A Good Reason to Get Into the Math
If you read here often enough, no surprise that I would include this presentation as the world “algorithm” and its meaning has held center stage at the Medical Quack for a couple of years, basically carrying the same message, get in to the math. As Kevin states in his talk “they have teeth”. Final…
Orange County Oncologist Gets Sentenced to 18 months Prison – Diagnosed With “Co-Dependency”- Couldn’t Stop Fraudulently Billing Medicare
I couldn’t make that title up if I tried as that is what Dr. Justice’s attorney states in this story. He was caught once a few years ago and his hands were slapped and then he did it again. As you can see from this story and some of the history, we was an actually practicing oncologist and in the …
FDA Mobile Medical Applications NPRM From the FDA–Register All With Categories and Create New Classification for “Clone Apps”
This is a bit of complicated issue for many as to setting up guidelines and rules that can be used, simply because technology in Health IT is bursting at the seams with new technologies and software being created almost daily. Back in April the first rules on MMDS for Class 1 devices was announced …
The Gates Foundation on Reinventing the Toilet-Let’s Get Our “Crap” Together and Do It (Video)
I do have to say this is a very well done video about a crappy subject and someone had their thinking cap on to produce the video. When the video hits the recycle parts it makes me think of Kevin Costner and Waterworld a bit. Not too long algo “crap burgers” were in the news too, so may be will …
Walter Reed Army Medical Center To Close It’s Doors Forever This Week–Moving to the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center
The hospital is closing it’s doors and will be combined with the National Naval Medical Center and this is slated to cost around $2 billion, more than what had been anticipated as the cost. Many workers will move and some will find jobs at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia at a new community hospit…
How Prime Healthcare Hospital Chain Is Accused of Boosting Profits With Higher ER Admissions
A comparison was done with using big hospital chain Tenet, who admitted 39% of the ER patients while the stats at Prime were 63%, so that’s pretty big difference with just looking at the percentage numbers. Back in February of this year, Prime was also questioned about some of their billing process…
RAM (Remote Area Medical) at Wise, Virginia for the 12th Annual Free Clinic Seeing over 4000 Patients
This was a 3 day event with those who have either no insurance or those without enough insurance to receive both free medical and dental care. 1700 volunteers showed to make all of this possible. Remote Area Medical Founder Receives 2010 Inamori Ethics Prize – RAM Returning to Los Angeles April …
Public Employee Benefits Alliance (PEBA) A Texas Purchasing Cooperative Signs Agreement With Satori Medical Tourism
PEBA represents over 150,000 from two Texas Political Subdivision Pools and 68 individual employers and I guess when you have the former CEO of Cigna it seems like it is opening some doors as a couple weeks ago we had the City of Hartford sign up too. City of Hartford First Major US City to Offer…
IBM General Parallel File System Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 minutes–New High Powered Hi-Tech-Could be Great for MRI Imaging
This almost makes me wish a 10 billion files to scan:) This looks like a good place to store some MRI images. As we all talk about the exploding amount of data we are all dealing with, we need items as such unless we starting dumping data but of course we know that’s not going to happen. Who’s th…
Health IT Company MMRGlobal (MyMedicalRecord.com) To Sell 4 Million Shares To Chinese Investment Partner
Back in 2008 the company merged with Favrille Biotech and is located in the Los Angeles area after the website has been online for around 6 months or so. We don’t hear too much in the news about the company but they are yet another PHR for patients to sign up and use and I am guessing based on the …
Johnson and Johnson Cautions Doctors Not To Begin Treatments with Doxil Cancer Drug–Shortages from Manufacturer Boehringer
The drug is used to treat ovarian cancer and Multiple myeloma or skin cancer. As you can read here new shipments will not ship until late August so you know what this means, hospitals sharing supplies and oncologists spending hours every week to ensure supplies for those currently being treated. T…
Breast Enhancement Stem Cell Surgery and Liposuction Combined With Cytori–Also Shown Safe for Breast Cancer Reconstruction
To me this look like a winner to combine both into one and of course by using one’s own stem cells, not foreign parts in the body. Cytori has been around for a while and GE a while back when it was new invested here as well. You can also read the peer review link below for additional information. …
