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The US State Department has formed a telemedicine public-private partnership in Pakistan, demonstrating the transformative power of high speed connectivity in improving social services in remote areas.  Telemedicine enables healthcare...

http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s6947c.htm I thought this was an interesting commentary: "FDA aside, what can we tell someone about a screening test that is supposedly 95% sensitive and has a false positive rate of 0.6% among...

Senators on the Commerce Committee recently promoted the benefits of high-speed internet access and called for the passage of measures designed to provide more public information about broadband, and more broadband connectivity. At a hearing on...

The New York Times (9/25, A22, Harris) reports that Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., "director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who shook up the agency when he barred scientists from consulting for drugmakers, announced that he would...

For those of us who trained and/or spent time at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) during our careers have wonderful memories of the experience and the wealth of material and expertise at "windowless buidling" on the...

Eye on FDA, a specialty blog written by Mark Senak, Senior Vice President at Fleishman-Hillard in Washington, D.C., launches a new YouTube channel. The Eye on FDA YouTube channel will aggregate healthcare videos in various subject areas, with a...