More IMHO malpractice re: diet drugs.The early promise of an anti-obesity drug may never be fulfilled following the discontinuation of a
"I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country." Donald Berwick,
Wasting resources with each trip.Overweight people are more likely to make frequent trips to their GP than smokers or those who are generally
And this is for a "safe" drug used for years - they will find more risk associations for the IMHO malpractice known as diet drugs.Acetaminophen
More medical vaporware.Biomarkers for cancer -- often reported with great publicity -- routinely fail to be of clinical use, a Canadian
If you want to try to prevent it, read on.Physicians continue to shy away from prescribing finasteride to prevent prostate cancer, despite
More money from us to the fat.Medicare will pay for intensive diet and exercise programs developed under the Ornish and Pritikin brands for
Kudos, fatsos. Fat parents have fat kids.On the other hand, there are reasons to believe that more children may be developing kidney stones,
The Patient Centered Medical Home has achieved another stepping stone in its journey to mainstream respectability: it was featured on National
The Disease Management Care Blog has always been taken by the non-linear relationship between disease burden and risk. For a telling example of
Is it a rigid orthodoxy? Being stuck in closed information loop? Spending too much time with overweening loyalists? Portraying any opposition as
Exmovere out of McLean, Virginia claims to have developed baby clothing that can monitor heart rate, "emotional state", and level of activity,
The vertebral augmentation field is getting more crowded, and, supposedly, cheaper. CareFusion has just announced an American launch of its new
Welch Allyn, in an attempt to improve patient monitoring and record keeping, has unveiled the Connex Electronic Vitals Documentation System. The
If you've ever had a cold, diarrhea, or pink eye you are probably familiar with the adenovirus. This virus has been a subject of research
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created tiny plastic microneedles using which they were able to deliver quantum dots under
Analog Devices, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of MEMS and digital signal processing technologies from Norwood, Mass, has just announced
Viatronix Inc. out of Stony Brook, NY has announced 510(k) FDA clearance for the first virtual colonoscopy CAD system available in the US. Along
Moving MRI images of the heart and other organs are nothing new. However, up until now these were always reconstructed afterwards by combining
As any medical student well knows, the initial treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax is a placement of a small-bore IV or pigtail catheter into
With the help of X-ray crystallography, a team of investigators from Penn State were able to peer inside the nucleosome core as it interacts
Reader's Digest recently published an essay by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer about medical device dangers that manufacturers know about but
A small (n=10) Phase 1 study published in Science Translational Medicine this week shows that synthetic corneas performed as well as cadaver
Robotic surgery is nothing new, but after the surgeon has been pushed away from the OR table, you are still left with the gasman. In one of the
SonoSite has received FDA clearance for its LumenVu Catheter Guidance System. SonoSite acquired LumenVu technology by buying the start-up