General Healthcare News
Through a pathology listserv someone posted some comments to a story that appeared recently in The New Yorker entitled "A Cloud of Smoke". The story brings attention to the death of James Zadroga, New York City Homicide...
A recent publication by a group of investigators at Northwestern University led by Dr. Karl Bilimoria (not Kyle as has been reported) in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week has been getting some notice by the popular press...
Last week I spoke on a medical bloggers panel at the Medicine 2.0 Congress held in Toronto. The meeting was held at the MaRS Centre downtown near the University of Toronto campus and the University Health Network hospital sites. The MaRS...
About 4 months, I mentioned a story on Mayo Clinic establishing a group on Facebook. Since then, over 1,800 people have become "fans" and posted 48 "wall posts". While I thought this was forward thinking for my...
The Los Angeles Times (8/1, Kaplan) reports that researchers from Harvard University and Columbia University "have created the first personalized stem cells for patients with" amyotrophic lateral...
Medical errors seem to a part of medical practice. It makes everyone, patients and physicians take notice. While some of the numbers in these studies and reviews seem high, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) held a...
