A few months ago I mentioned a case involving a Colorado physician who prescribed medication over the Internet (see: Telemedicine and the Law) to a patient who later committed suicide. That physican has now been sentenced to nine months in...

HealthDay (4/13, Preidt) reported that, according to a study published online Apr. 12 in the journal Nature Medicine, "a specialized technique that can detect subtle changes in cancer cells contained in a drop of blood or a tiny piece of...

pathtalk.org has undergone a recent revision in concept and design from its inception in 2007. Posts from this blog as well as other content from myself and 11 others currently will contribute to the blog.  The administrator for the...

A recent post on "gastric man" was particularly popular.  Here is another one from my own collection.  Several years ago a group at Northwestern published an image of a "lost dog" in the Archives of Pathology...

A story entitled "Recession Now Hits Jobs in Health Care" was in the Wall Street Journal recently. Other stories in the news have discussed closing hospitals, including the possibilty of Shriners hospitals closing.  My...

Very interesting and practical application -- An obstetrics application for use on the iPhone has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration,  says the company that created it. San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip Technologies, which...