Investors busy assessing how the state of the global economy will affect their stock portfolios should start thinking about how the presidential race will weigh in. In particular, investors may want to look at how to play the health insurance space. Health care remains a subject of divide between the ...
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife The battle over how to best contain America’s out-of-control healthcare costs has raged for decades with conservatives long pushing the concept of consumer driven healthcare as the means to bring down the high cost of care. Others, such as myself, have long argued that ...
Rep. Charles Boustany (R., La.). Image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011, sponsored by Rep. Charles Boustany (R., La.). This two-page bill would repeal the fiscal disaster known as the CLASS ...
The Supreme Court recently blocked a California law that would require slaughterhouses to immediately euthanize animals too sick to walk, Reuters reported Jan. 23. The National Meat Association sued to block the California law, and U.S. justices ruled that federal, not state laws, set the standard for meat safety.
A new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine provides the best evidence yet that drinking black tea can lower blood pressure. Jonathan M. Hodgson and colleagues randomized 95 regular tea drinkers to either 3 cups per day of either black tea (containing 429 mg of polyphenols and 96 mg of caffeine) ...
On January 10, Life Technologies and Illumina both announced plans for faster, same-day DNA sequencers. One difference: Life’s machine, the Ion Proton, is considerably cheaper.In a note to his clients this morning, Macquarie Capital analyst Jon Groberg opines: The one thing we feel we can say with certainty following these ...
Editor’s Note: Edward J. Schloss (Twitter ID @EJSMD), the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, returned yesterday from the Riata ICD Lead Summit. Dr. Schloss has kindly forwarded his summary of the meeting to CardioBrief. “As the audience was restricted to clinicians and St.
In Millennials Divorce Marriage (Part 1) we looked at the facts generated by the Millennial lifestyle and discovered that love, sex, and power are being unbundled. We also saw that men are becoming increasingly un-necessary and the nuclear family is likewise changing drastically.
Big Data has arrived st Seton Health Care Family, fortunately accompanied by an analytics tool that will help deal with the complexity of more than two million patient contacts a year, usually attended by dozens of existing patient record pages and generating more with each visit — some electronic, many ...
Could pain meds be deadlier than the problems they’re meant to treat? (image via Flickr) Could your attempts to cope with common headaches, sore knees or backache be putting you at risk for heart attack, stroke and liver disease? Recent research suggests that both ibuprofen and acetominophen — the two ...
Okay, let’s just stop here for a moment. I don’t know about you but when I hear about a crime involving a hospital it tends to get me worked up. I mean, c’mon, when we’re talking about hospitals, we’re talking about sick patients, families in distress, the most vulnerable moments ...
There’s been a lot of controversy over the concept of Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), especially as the new DSM-V prepares to launch.
For those who don’t know boxing, there are three ways a fight ends. The first is a clear knockout, the second is by vote of ringside judges and the third is when the referee in the ring ends the fight. This last one is known as a technical knockout – ...
After some discussion here on Forbes about the validity of “influence” in social media, news that Twitter has a significant impact on scientific citations is something of a surprise. But could it be? That debate has been ongoing in the science community through January.
The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012 — NEJM. The New England Journal of Medicine’s article on the fate of health care reform in 2012 greatly saddens the optimist in me. It discusses four important events, and I’ll share my “simplistic view” of these events: ...
For someone who desires to make things as simple as possible, it is ironic that my favorite reading is in the field of complexity science. People historically have tried to understand the world as a series of machines. The idea is if we break the machines down into smaller parts, ...
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