General Healthcare News

The New York Times (9/24, A12, Tavernise, Subscription Publication) reports that the Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday that “a small portion of the rapidly expanding universe of mobile health applications” would be...

Courtesy of PathXL: Recognized as one of the world’s leading genome centres, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institutes’ work is dedicated to engaging in exploratory projects that can influence and empower medical science globally....

Another development in the digital pathology market worth noting.  News released yesterday rumored for some time about XIFIN, a financial cloud computing company acquiring another technology company addressing the worldwide the pathology...

For more information the strange tale of Einstein's brain, the pathologist who performed his autopsy at Princeton in 1955, recommend reading "Driving Mr. Albert" or "Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain" and you can begin...

Medscape (subscription required) had an article last week called "GAO Suspects Monetary Motive in Physician In-House Pathology". Whoo. That's good. I thought the GAO may have been looking into this with a multi-part report for reasons other...

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) there is a classic scene addressing brain hematomas and the differences between 2oth century medicine: "A simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure!" and  23rd...