A New Way to Allocate Donor Kidneys?
Younger, healthier patients would be more likely than older, sicker ones to get the best kidneys if a new proposal by UNOS, the US’ organ transplant network is accepted. The…
TeleICU Lowers Mortality Rates and Length of Stay
I love reporting good news! Today I share the results of a meta-analysis looking reported in the March 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers looked at the use…
Wireless Device Sends Lab Results Direct to EMRs
Now when talking about useful wireless devices, this is one of them and we see some nice collaboration efforts here with more than one thing being done via a medical…
Churning in ObamaCare
A new article in Health Affairs brings attention to the problem of “churning” in the eligibility requirements for subsidized ObamaCare. The study by Benjamin Sommers and Sara Rosenbaum looks at…
Ablation Technologies Energized for Growth
"Ablation" may be generally described as a therapeutic destruction and/or sealing of tissue, whether to destroy diseased tissue, remove necrotic tissue, create a lesion to produce a therapeutic effect (as…
How Many Melanoma Patients Did the FDA Kill?
By my estimate, more than 1,000 people have died prematurely because of foot-dragging by the FDA. Here’s why. After an “expedited” analysis that lasted a year and a half, the…
NeoStem to Present Stem Cell Technology at OneMedForum NY 2011
NeoStem is focused on accelerating the development of proprietary cellular therapies and becoming a single source for collection, storage, manufacturing, therapeutic development and transportation of cells for cell based medicine…
Are There Differences in Medicare Spending Across States?
Research by the Dartmouth Atlas team has indicated that Medicare spending is concentrated regionally. States such as Florida spend much more per beneficiary than do doctors who treat similar patients…
Is Medicaid Real Insurance?
As governors across the land pepper the federal government with requests to scale back Medicaid — many people are losing sight of the fact that health care reform (what some…
Supreme Court Hands Vaccine Makers a Big Win
Vaccine makers won a big victory last week when the Supreme Court ruled by a 6-2 margin that US law effectively protects them from product-liability suits based on claims of…
