Walmart Buys Social Media Company Kosmix
Ok let me get the humor out of the way here first, I wondered about branding and Walmart Labs sounds better than Facemart . We have information organized by Ok…
OneMedForum NY 2011 Grows Its Advisory Board And Selects Initial Presenters
OneMedForum NY 2011, to be held June 23 -24, has added new members to the Advisory Board and selected an initial group of “discovery” lesser known companies with terrific growth…
Nurses Can Practice Medicine — Only if They Work for Government
Full post by Robin Hanson is worth reading: prevent cheaper medicine via nurses directly managing patients, even though randomized trials suggest nurses are just as effective….. Full post by Robin…
Applied NeuroSolutions Identifies Protein Associated with Alzheimer’s
Applied NeuroSolutions is a specialty biopharmaceutical company that is developing unprecedented early diagnostic tests and therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. The company’s technological platform is based on the pioneering scientific work…
The Fatal Conceit
The legislation itself runs to 2,801 pages when the two companion bills passed in the same week are combined. But most of the major programs require an avalanche of regulations…
Are Republicans Plotting a 100% Death Tax on the Middle Class?
Merrill Goozner of GoozNews has a provocative take on the Ryan plan for Medicare. He contends that it is the equivalent of a 100 percent estate tax (or “death tax”…
Devices for the Treatment of Obesity: Modes of Action
Market drivers in the treatment of obesity are strong, and include the fact that there is a significant unmet need: pharmaceuticals by and large do not work well, and may…
Ultraprocessed Foods Lead to Chronic Illnesses
Much of today's foods are "ultraprocessed," lead to obesity and its ultimate diseases such as diabetes, coronary artery disease, hypertension, many cancers and worsening of diseases such as osteoarthritis. Much…
Medicare by the Numbers
Here are the five most important things you need to know about Paul Ryan, Barack Obama and Medicare. You won’t find this anywhere else. Here are the five most important…
1.1 Million Elderly Taken to ED for Adverse Medication Reactions
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related emergenc The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health surveillance system that monitors…
