Researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston have reported in the online edition of Diabetes that they have identified the specific molecular pathway involved in triggering the autoimmune response at the root of type 1 diabetes.[read more]

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The problem with past attempts to control health care spending is that adequate quality standards were not in place. It was all about keeping costs down. While this model represents an improvement over other models, the amounts at risk are relatively trivial and, standing alone, will not bend the cost curve.[read more]

Linked to diabetes?

Eating even a half-serving more of red meat over time is associated with an increased risk of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in a follow-up of three studies of about 149,000 U.S. men and women, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine.[read more]

Health Start-Ups!

There are a few technologies in particular that tech and business experts think everyone should know about, from general consumers to policymakers, to better understand how technology will shape society and the economy over the next decade.[read more]

How is sequestration affecting the elderly?

The sequestration was enacted to reduce our nation’s spending deficit, which is currently in the trillions. How is it affecting our nation? Those who can least afford to lose federal funding -- including the unemployed, the elderly, and the disabled -- are being hit the worst.[read more]

Project testing and funding

Crowd-funding is the new kid on the block and is making a lot of waves in the start-up world. And thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which goes into effect in 2013, crowdfunding will transition from a donation to a true investment model.[read more]

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Americans see their doctors more than 1 billion times a year ― and spend nearly $300 billion on physician services ― but they rarely discuss the price of a given service with their physicians in advance of receiving treatment. It gets worse. Although only about 10 percent of health care expenditures are spent on physicians’ services, doctors are the gate keepers to virtually all care that is provided to patients[read more]

A successful university business incubator has lots of engaged mentors, is run like a startup and generates buzz and benefits for its local business community. Those are some of the high-level findings of new venture out of Sweden that’s trying to create an objective way to evaluate business incubators across the world.[read more]

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Noticing that your posts on your Facebook, Twitter, or other social media outlets sometimes don't do as well as they normally do? When exactly are the best times and days for you to publish your healthcare posts so the most patients and new leads will see them?[read more]

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In a July 2011 editorial entitled “Vanishing clinical psychopharmacology” in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, authors Gerven and Cohen point out that, in 2010, only two medications “with a broadly defined psychiatric or neurological indication” were approved by the FDA. Now there's worse to come.[read more]

At a time when mobile health initiatives and mobile apps are flooding the market, the Federal Communications Commission has shown enough interest to appoint Matthew Quinn as Director of Healthcare Initiatives. Mr. Quinn will have expanding responsibilities at his new position.[read more]

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There’s a huge gap “between hospital management and frontline clinicians with respect to improving patient satisfaction,” according to a study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). It seems as if “patient satisfaction” is everyone’s destination, but few hospitals have a map to get from here to there.[read more]