General Healthcare News

While I do not like the statement "Pathologists also sometimes miss important findings for other diseases, says Dr. Mark Graber, chief of the medical service at the Northport VA Medical Center in New York", its context can be found in...

Since first hearing and seeing this site in the BioImagene booth at USCAP have uploaded over 50 cases and the service provided for scanning and web hosting your cases has been top notch!  Included in the cases I have had scanned to date...

Pancreatic cancer and bile duct cancer are difficult to diagnose and often fatal because they are discovered in the advanced stages of the disease. Researchers have developed new tests that double the ability to detect bile duct and pancreatic...

Healthcare IT News (5/15, Hardy) reported that, "through a joint effort by Quest Diagnostics and Microsoft HealthVault, patients and physicians can now share diagnostic laboratory test results online." Physicians "who use...

In the past I have blogged about virtual colonoscopy and concern over how in the future this may diminish the number of colon biopsies done to be reviewed.  Others have argued this might actually increase the number of colonoscopies...

I have heard of patients not showing up for surgery - but not a surgeon being there as scheduled. By FRANK ELTMANAssociated Press Writer One of the highest-paid doctors in New York refused to perform brain surgery on an already-anesthetized...