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First Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s Disease Available Late 2008A new blood test has been developed by a company that claims it can give an early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease and distinguish between Parkinson’s...
Specialty hospitals measure rightly removed from farm billAfter vocal objection from the AMA, federal lawmakers abandoned a proposal to insert a provision into already-passed agriculture legislation that would ban physicians’ referrals to...
I have been considering a post dealing with the amount of material online and in-print involving children and what it means for their safety. For example, there are countless, albeit very well done and highly personal "mommy"...
It’s a great pleasure for me to host Medicine 2.0, the blog carnival of web 2.0 and medicine. We, medical bloggers, try to write more and more about web 2.0’s impact on medicine and healthcare. My thanks to Berci Mesko for the invitation...
On the front page of its Health section, the Washington Post (4/8, HE1, Brown) reports that, "in the world of health economics," an "ounce of prevention is" typically "worth considerably less" than an ounce of...
The CBS Evening News (3/24, story 10, 2:00, Smith) reported on "a ground breaking 15-hour surgery" performed by Dr. Tomoaki Kato and a team at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. The physicians operated on a...
