General Healthcare News
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...
Story courtesy of Kathlyn Stone at Flesh & Stone. A Spanish pathologist who studied Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad cow) disease died Saturday. His colleagues suspect he contracted the disease from exposure to infected human...
AFP (3/23) reported, "Scientists combing the human genome have discovered...common genetic mutations that boost the risk of sudden cardiac" death (SCD) and ventricular arrhythmias, according to two recently published studies...
BBC News (3/10) reported, "Nanotechnology has been used for the first time to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted package of 'tumor busting' genes," and it "could potentially offer hope to people with...
Here is a video from ABC News. Certainly a debatable topic and add in "fee for service" by clinicians it may complicate the biology as well... http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7053215...
A number of people have asked me recently if healthcare IT initiatives will receive any funding from the recently passed stimulus package. Here is a nice summary I saw recently: The $787 billion economic stimulus package includes $19...
