Can you be trusted to do your own genetics test? FDA will decide. (And you thought this was a free country?)
Substandard and counterfeit drugs cost 13 percent to 18 percent less in the global marketplace. However, the market is far from perfect.
Another blow to ObamaCare: Pay-for-performance not working in Massachusetts.
The hazards of daylight savings time. There’s a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries on the first Monday of Daylight Saving.
US government’s advice on how to handle food leftovers. You know the feds have too much money when they can afford to publish this.
Hospitals study themselves. Conclusion: we’re not monopolists.
12,500 = The number of people helped by the health reform law. 2.6 million = The number of people granted waivers from the new law.
Jason Shafrin: How would ACOs work for truckers? How can you have a medical home if you are never home?
No relationship between cost and quality: Hospital spending doesn’t affect Sepsis survival rates.
Guess which insurance plans can charge you more if you are young and disabled with pre-existing conditions and will continue to do so under ObamaCare? Government regulated medigap plans, like the ones offered by AARP!
Almost 13% of Texans will still be uninsured after ObamaCare is implemented. In California, almost 12% will remain uninsured.
Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units has spread to 300 hospitals in 40 healthcare systems across 30 states. Vital signs and the visual condition of patients are displayed on five to six computer workstations that can keep track of multiple patients.
Does physician empathy matter? Yes, at least for diabetics.
Competition matters: Hospitals in Northern California collect 56 percent more revenue per patient per day than hospitals in Southern California.
Pharmacists Fight the Rise of Mail Order Drug Purchases.
Michael Moore On Wealthy People’s Money: “That’s Not Theirs, That’s A National Resource, It’s Ours.”
Evidence mixed on whether diet soft drinks are healthy.
Man on death row wants to donate his organs, but prisons don’t allow it.
Nanotechnology Fact of the Day: researchers are working with tiny bits of matter that are 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a sheet of paper—and sensitive magnetic fields to locate breast-cancer cells.
Outerspace Fact of the Day: Companies are paying $200,000 a flight to give scientists four minutes of weightlessness.
Medical Fact of the Day: Anesthesia is a reversible drug-induced coma.
Animal Fact of the Day: By regenerating lost heart tissue, newborn mice can heal their own organs.
Evolution Fact of the Day: Marine worms have primitive eyes.
Smart people are more likely to binge drink. “Very dull” people almost never get drunk, whereas very bright” people get drunk once every month or so.
Can talking on your cell phone be useful in treating depression?
Autopsies: Half of “Alzheimer’s patients” did not have the disease.
For marital satisfaction, husbands should be fatter than wives.
Talking on the phone while driving makes some people less likely to get in an accident.
