German Researchers Use iPS Skin Cells to Correct Gene Defect in Mice With Liver Disease–Mice Were Cured 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 us...

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

NH Hospitals Sue the State Over Medicaid Cuts and One Lays off 180 Employees 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 disconnec...

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Medical Students and Doctors Protest in Israel Demanding Improvements in the Healthcare System 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 stud...

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Drug Recalled Due To Radiation–CardioGen-82 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 faciliti...

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

FDA Finds U.S. Cetero Research Falsified Records About Drug Studies-Probably Hidden in the Algorithms Used for Reporting 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 ...

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Kaiser Permanente Launches Mobile Application–KP Locator for the Iphone 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 t...

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

How Algorithms Shape Our World–TED Talks Kevin Slavin–Writing the Unreadable And A Good Reason to Get Into the Math 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 s...

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Orange County Oncologist Gets Sentenced to 18 months Prison – Diagnosed With “Co-Dependency”- Couldn’t Stop Fraudulently Billing Medicare 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 an...

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Monday, July 25, 2011

FDA Mobile Medical Applications NPRM From the FDA–Register All With Categories and Create New Classification for “Clone Apps” 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 i...

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Monday, July 25, 2011

‪The Gates Foundation on Reinventing the Toilet-Let’s Get Our “Crap” Together and Do It (Video) ‪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...

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Walter Reed Army Medical Center To Close It’s Doors Forever This Week–Moving to the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center 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,...

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

How Prime Healthcare Hospital Chain Is Accused of Boosting Profits With Higher ER Admissions 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 ...

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

RAM (Remote Area Medical) at Wise, Virginia for the 12th Annual Free Clinic Seeing over 4000 Patients 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 car...

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Public Employee Benefits Alliance (PEBA) A Texas Purchasing Cooperative Signs Agreement With Satori Medical Tourism 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...

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Friday, July 22, 2011

IBM General Parallel File System Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 minutes–New High Powered Hi-Tech-Could be Great for MRI Imaging 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 exp...

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Health IT Company MMRGlobal (MyMedicalRecord.com) To Sell 4 Million Shares To Chinese Investment Partner 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 ...

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Johnson and Johnson Cautions Doctors Not To Begin Treatments with Doxil Cancer Drug–Shortages from Manufacturer Boehringer 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 A...

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Breast Enhancement Stem Cell Surgery and Liposuction Combined With Cytori–Also Shown Safe for Breast Cancer Reconstruction 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 h...

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Thursday, July 21, 2011
 
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