Pathology News
Reposted from Dark Daily. Follow up on previous post here. Because healthcare is about to embark on a major digitization of paper records, lots of new corporate players are positioning themselves to profit from this activity. The...
BusinessWeek (4/18, Backman) reported that after investing "in a genetic screening company, 23andMe," Google is now "also putting money into a second Silicon Valley DNA-screening startup, Navigenics." The company "aims...
Exposure to formaldehyde may increase risk of developing ALS, study suggests Reuters (4/17, Steenhuysen) reports that according to findings presented at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Chicago, researchers at the Harvard...
The U.K.'s Guardian (4/17, Randerson) reports that the "era of mass genome sequencing to assess risks of genetic disease comes a step closer today with the publication of" a second "human genome sequence," according to an...
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...
