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Health care IT (Electronic Medical Records) falls on funding delay – Where’s the Money?
What was anticipated as being a booming year for health IT relative to electronic medical records has somewhat hit a stall, at least for no...
In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious – Now thinking about personalized healthcare investments…
Well this might end up being a good move here as there’s much to gain. At least invest in something that has the potential to improve and ...
eClinicalWorks Electronic Medical Records Scores with 2 new large installations
Recently there has been quite a bit in the news about eClinicalWorks and perhaps this might be due to the fact that they not only offer a ...
The president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association warns that groups she represents are not recession-proof
One more warning about the status of hospitals in the US, and she gets right to the point, the first statement pretty much says it all below...
In California, no Pot Cards Issued by the county, see you in court
Solano County wants their cards, well and for good reason for those who are medically using pot, so they are not arrested. BD A medical...
FDA approves fenofibric acid for lipid target controls – Lower LDL, Increase HDL
Can’t get your LDL down, even with statins, one more drug to the rescue if needed, and can be taken with or without statin use and it shoul...
China treats "Internet Addicts" with boot-camp discipline and sex education
Well one more story about internet addiction and treatment processes, and in the extreme cases, they get drugs too. You know some of the m...
Tufts in Boston not happy with Blue Cross over doctor pay – Patients may have to change
Hospital issues continue in Boston and the fact that Blue Cross/Blue Shield is making some large profits probably doesn’t help matters muc...
Inspirational Song for 2009 – “If you Really want to….Seize the Day”
This is a bit out of the normal posting business here, but with all the events of 2008 that have taken place, I felt that perhaps a suggeste...
Sterilization at a VA Hospital – Should this be outsourced for another VA facility to sterilize tools and equipment used?
I read this article and my thought here are why? Is there that much money being saved on sending to another facility to sterilize equipmen...
The Medical Quack featured on the Lance Armstrong Cancer Awareness Website
This site follows Lance throughout his training and worldwide cancer awareness campaign. Information from the website below. I appreciate...
2009: The Year We all Reboot and find some better filters to enhance life..
I can’t think of one individual that was particularly happy with 2008 to say the least, but 2009 is not a cure all as the new year comes in...
NIST Calls Personalized Medicine a 'Critical National Need, asking for White Papers and suggestions on projects to fund with personalized medicine
Is this perhaps an attempt to begin some standardization along the line as well? Well here we go with 2009, more information overload to a...
Strange Insurance Marketing Web Page– Humana
It appears that Humana is thinking an Adobe Flash page might generate some additional interest and perhaps some new customers? And the...
State panel to examine payments to Partners Hospitals in Boston – Other hospitals in the State are looking for a bail out…
One group, Partners is making money, while others are starving and it has to do with contracts with insurers and patient mix, charity and t...
Plavix – What’s the next step for doctors and patients – possible genetic testing in the near future?
Will Plavix be the next drug up for a genetic test? There are not many alternative drugs either that could easily replace the functionalit...
New California Laws – Healthcare Related
Well first on the list is text messaging and that can have an immediate effect on healthcare in helping avoid accidents, and one more of in...
Inherited Factors Play an Important Role in Breast Cancer Progression According to New Study in Mice, but Prostate Cancer Family History does not affect treatment outcomes
Two different studies, two different types of cancer, and two different results based on family history of breast and prostate cancer. As ...
Does work affect one’s mental health – pretty good chance it does
This is a good article written by by Brain Blogger who discusses biopsychosocial perspectives. It is probably no surprise to most of us tha...
FDA Approves Ferring Pharmaceuticals' Degarelix for Advanced Prostate Cancer
A new treatment option that is basically depressing the body’s hormone producing agents, and for use with advanced stages of the disease. ...
FDA Drug Approvals Highest In Three Years
It certainly doesn’t seem this way, but when you stop and think about the submissions to the FDA, those too have increased tremendously ove...
Rosetta Genomics introduces new molecular based cancer test
Earlier this year a collaboration effort was established with the NIH to determine the role of microRNAs in HIV viral replication, and thei...
