Category Archives: Interesting Links

Hits and Misses

electronic-medical-recordCall your doctor: CMS says telehealth services should cover annual wellness visits, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

A remote control for your birth control.

A simple blood test for Alzheimer’s.

Weight loss: The best medicine for osteoarthritis.

And you thought you were a hoarder: CDC finds smallpox vials from 1950s in FDA storage room.

Poop in a pill: Fecal transplant drug nearing Phase 3 clinical trials.

A problem that self-identifies: Microwave oven that counts calories as it nukes.

Hits and Misses

chopsticks-6What you shouldn’t eat: Instant noodles drive metabolic syndrome (at least in Korean women).

Who would have thought this was the case: Some bee pollen weight loss products are a…scam.

Don’t watch what your workers eat: Non-diet approach to weight management more effective in worksite wellness programs.

However, you can lose weight eating sour milk: Yogurt intake over long term linked to lower risk of becoming overweight.

Less exercise, not more calories, responsible for expanding waistlines.

Should a pharmacist run your corporate fitness program? Sure, it’s yet another job they are infinitely overqualified to perform.

Hits and Misses

Every single one of 470 senior VA executives was rated “fully successful” or better over four years.

Office of civil rights levied $10 million in fines for health-privacy breaches last year; will “pale in comparison” to next year’s take.

Quitting smoking? There’s an app for that.

Physicians rail at expensive and burdensome re-certification requirements.

Administration claims insurers’ risk-corridor “bailout” is funded by “user fees“.