General Healthcare News

From Google.org (headed by 2006 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant) comes this neat data display: Google Flu Trends. The project came about after some Google search engineers wondered if, in communities where more people searched on the term...

Ronald Davis, Health Crusader, Dies at 52 from the New York Times // <![CDATA[ function getSharePasskey() { return &#39;ex=1384232400&amp;en=c442d529317944f6&amp;ei=5124&#39;;} // ]]> // <![CDATA[ function...

It's not often a pathologist gets quoted in the Wall Street Journal but one of my colleagues recently did for a story yesterday with the above title which talks about a wide variety of electronic tracking systems to track everything...

Who knew there was even a place in the Guiness world record book for administering the seasonal flu vaccine? http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/oct3008record.html by Lisa Schnirring  (Staff Writer) Oct...

The family of Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science fantasies as "Jurassic Park," "Timeline" and "The Andromeda Strain," says the author has died in Los...

The WSJ Health Blog has an interesting post about companies sending their employees to referral centers, regardless of cost but weighing benefits of rankings and quality of care.  As the story describes, there are a growing number of...