General Healthcare News
The quality of sound, reproducibility for computer analysis and file-sharing potential of MP3 recordings may nudge the doctor's stethoscope out of favour, according to Canadian researchers presenting here at the Annual Congress of the European...
USA Today (9/6, Donaghue) reports that "a 2003 Journal of the American Medical Association review of autopsy studies" found that "doctors misdiagnose 8 percent to 24 percent of the time." To combat this problem, some are...
BCBS settling parties agree to pay out more than $131 million; Oct. 19 is key deadline Physicians who provided covered services to any patient enrolled in or covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans at any time between May 22, 1999, and...
HealthDay (9/18, Reinberg) reports, "French surgeons report removing a gallbladder through a woman's vagina, joining a handful of surgeons around the world who are trying the novel technique." So far, two similar operations have...
Futurescape of Pathology lectures now available here. I think one the resident CAP travel awardees, Dr. Jochen "Joe" Lennerz summed up the conference the best as below: "“Be ready to assume a little risk” and...
