Current Affairs

By Kate Madden Yee, AuntMinnie.com staff writer The U.S. House of Representatives voted on January 1 to approve the Senate's fiscal cliff bill that averts a 27% reimbursement cut due to the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. But the...

Check out Your iPhone Just Called: Your Blood-Sugar Is High in The Wall Street Journal. I wonder if proposed health care reforms will help or hinder these types of technologies available to manage health care...

Here it is - an article out of Canada claiming "All you need is a physician, a handheld device, a quick and non-invasive sample and you get a clinically relevant answer" and "You don't need a pathology lab, you don't need...

IBM Research aims to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, which if succesful could improve throughput and reduce cost to $100–$1,000 per genome sequenced. The scientists’ technique will analyze genetic code by passing DNA strands through...

NIH continues to do its part of allocating funding from stimulus money...Some of it seems excessive.  Nearly $8 million to bail out a drug company?  And only $22 million to IUPUI out of $5 billion?  Good to see investment in...

Dr. Ed Uthman is a practicing pathologist who recently posted this video on YouTube.  Regardless of where you are on the debate of healthcare reform I think Ed sums up succintly some widely perceived misconceptions regarding several...