General Healthcare News
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...
7/9/2008 10:25:02 AM By Jeff HanselPost-Bulletin, Rochester MN Mayo Clinic wants people to know that the organization's virtual door -- like a scene from the movie Monsters Inc. -- can be found anyplace in the world....
