Outside Review of Clinical Data Finds a Spinal Treatment's Benefit Overstated
Source: The New York Times
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 15:03:50 -0700 | health-news
Medtronic, was no better than an older one and possibly more risky...Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale who oversaw the Infuse review. Infuse, a bone growth product from Medtronic, has been used with implanted devices like the one above....
Catalent Pharma to expand Winchester controlled release manufacturing facility
Source: Pharmaceutical Industry News
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-16 22:35:10 -0700 | health-news
Around $35m is likely to be invested to expand the 100,000ft2 facility by almost 80,000ft2 of manufacturing space. Expected to create as many as 90 new jobs, the expanded site is already under construction and will be complete by October...
Technology can mitigate challenges of genomic data in EHRs
Source: FierceHealthIT
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 11:34:49 -0700 | health-news
Share Tools Much work remains to be done before genetic content can effectively be incorporated into electronic health records, research from the University of Wisconsin concludes. In a paper published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association...
New Sickle Cell Anemia Therapy Advances to Phase II Clinical Trials
Source: Newswise
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 03:45:14 -0700 | health-news
Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Seeking to improve the lives of sickle cell anemia sufferers around the world, researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, the Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center in Boston and the...
MAP: These States Rejected Federal Money to Fix Their Terrible Mental Health Systems
Source: Mother Jones
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-10 04:05:44 -0700 | health-news
PDT Less than half of Americans living with mental illness receive the treatment they needa failure that lands large numbers of mentally ill people in jails, emergency rooms, and on the streets. One provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act,...
Monday Medical: Demystifying sunscreen
Source: The Steamboat Pilot
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-10 04:05:57 -0700 | health-news
When I was in high school, I spent many days during summer vacation on a lounge chair covered in tanning oil at Blackhawk Lake, the nearest beach to my hometown in Wisconsin...Now, I am chasing down my daughters and slathering...
New Health Affairs: Medicaid Expansion And Vulnerable Populations
Source: Health Affairs Blog
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-06-03 13:04:52 -0700 | health-news
Health Affairs' June issue , released today, examines the challenges and benefits for states deciding whether to embrace the law's Medicaid expansion or opt out. Several studies in the issue also look at population disparities in health care, especially during...
For New Doctors, 8 Minutes Per Patient
Source: The New York Times Health Blog
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-29 21:22:21 -0700 | health-news
Getty Images At a social gathering not long ago, a colleague and I exchanged stories about residency training, fondly remembering the patients who had helped us grow both as doctors and as people. A doctor-in-training we both knew listened intently...
Feds find problems at Wis. mental health center
Source: SF Gate
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 09:14:05 -0700 | health-news
A federal agency has sanctioned the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex for failing to protect patients from one another. It also was cited for insufficient follow-up after reports of beatings of patients by other patients, a patient who deliberately rammed...
Hope, Hype, And Health In Silicon Valley
Source: Forbes
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 01:09:18 -0700 | health-news
Now, I've reached what I can only hope is the plateau of productivity. I've an even deeper belief in the power that Silicon Valley technology and thinking could have if applied to healthcare problems, as well as an equally strong...
'Aspirin could double the risk of blindness'
Source: Pak Tribune
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 02:36:24 -0700 | health-news
Regular intake of the 'wonder drug' aspirin for 10 years could more than double the risk of sight loss, a new study has claimed...Researchers from the University of Wisconsin used data from the Beaver Dam Eye Study on age-related eye...
Report: Human stem cells cloned
Source: CNN
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 11:51:32 -0700 | health-news
It's been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist...
Anecdotal Evidence Offers Clues to Youth Concussions
Source: The New York Times
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 12:01:33 -0700 | health-news
Here are some of their observations after watching the concussion phenomenon from the inside. Although it is not clinical data arrived at by scientific means, it is meant to capture a picture of general findings. ¶ Female patients are making...
Discovery Helps Show How Breast Cancer Spreads
Source: Newswise
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 11:08:19 -0700 | health-news
EDT Embargo expired: 5/5/2013 1:00 PM EDT Source Newsroom: Newswise Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread....
States 'Blindsided' by Plan to Shift 'Uninsurables' Cost Under ObamaCare
Source: Fox
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 15:56:27 -0700 | health-news
Published May 04, 2013 Associated Press Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Obama's health care overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say. At risk is the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan,...
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