General Healthcare News
Forty-five percent of surveyed physicians admit to prescribing placebos. The UPI (1/4) reports that "U.S. doctors may prescribe placebos more often than patients are aware," according to a survey by Rachel Sherman, a medical student...
Article link at: http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/vendor_performance25365-1.html December 18, 2007 KLAS Enterprises LLC has issued its 2007 Best in KLAS Awards based on customer satisfaction with health care information technology...
The AFP (12/18) reports, "More than 12 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2007 and 7.6 million people were killed by the disease," roughly "20,000 [deaths] each day of the...
From the Post-Bulletin comes this story about retail medicine from Mayo Clinic. Readers of labsoftnews.com are familiar with postings about retail medicine outlets. The numbers in bold below seem staggering. I suppose it...
I recently completed reading How Doctors Think by Dr. Jerome Groopman. He holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in...
The Chicago Tribune (11/27, Shelton) reports, "Aiming to inject $200 million into the global campaign to eradicate polio, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday that it is awarding a $100 million challenge grant to...
