General Healthcare News
The Wall Street Journal previously reported (11/20, D1, Zimmerman) reports that Americans' use of text-messaging services to obtain health information is increasing. This method "is fast, cheap and private. Unlike voice mail, it is...
With Nicotini, no need to light up (Chicago Sun-Times) From pine fin martinis to chocolate martinis to nicotinis March 12, 2008BY LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter / ldonovan@suntimes.com Sooner or later, a creative soul was going to have to come up...
Eric G. Campbell, PhD; Susan Regan, PhD; Russell L. Gruen, MD, PhD; Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH; Sowmya R. Rao, PhD; Paul D. Cleary, PhD; and David Blumenthal, MD, MPP Annals of Internal Medicine 4 December 2007 | Volume 147 Issue 11 | Pages...
The New York Times (3/7, Chang) reported that a "team of scientists, including Linda B. Buck, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has retracted a scientific paper that described...
Dear Colleague: I would like to bring your attention to a very important campaign currently underway on Sermo. The Sermo physician community is working on drafting an "open letter to the people of the United States" reflecting our...
I have posted previous notes about the use of breath testing to detect diseases. Here is another one. Reuters (2/20) reports that according to a paper appearing in the journal Optics Express,...
