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| Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor
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| Detail men, those road warriors who push pharmaceutical samples through your favorite doctor's waiting room, are still the best sales resource drug companies have.
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September 4, 2008 |
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| California fines 18 hospitals for shoddy care
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| Violations include failure to turn on ventilator and leaving tools in patient.
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August 19, 2008 |
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| Can global competition bring health care quality?
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| Since last year a flood of insurers have claimed they would never pay for "never events" — like leaving stuff in the patient after an operation. Some have even detailed what they won't pay for.
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August 7, 2008 |
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| Can the Free Market Salvage the Health Care System?
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| Sorting out different health care proposals is tough and confusing. Here's a primer on leading market-based solutions.
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February 2008 |
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| Dear doctor, we've lost our faith in medicine
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| What can be done to repair the crumbling doctor-patient relationship?
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July 29, 2008 |
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| Demo Call for World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress
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| Medgadget is teaming up with the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, an industry conference to be held this December 8-10 in Washington, D.C. We plan on attending the wide ranging event, and are looking forward to seeing innovative medical product and design ideas on display.
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July 15, 2008 |
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| Drug Maker Plans to Disclose Financial Ties to Doctors
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| In an industry first, Eli Lilly and Co. says it will begin disclosing how much money it paid to individual doctors nationally for advice, speeches and other services.
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September 24, 2008 |
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| FDA officials opposed drug suit policy
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| Assumption that agency-approved labels are current is false, doctor says.
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October 29, 2008 |
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| Few Strategies Exist To Prevent MRSA Spread In Nursing Homes
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| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is making news as a dangerous, sometimes fatal disease for hospital patients, and in recent cases, students. MRSA is also a major source of illness acquired in nursing homes, yet few studies have looked at how to prevent its spread among elderly residents, according to a new review.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| Foreign Doctors Filling Shortage of U.S. Primary Care Physicians
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| Fewer American doctors are focusing on primary care, but the decline is being covered by physicians from other countries. The General Accountability Office said Tuesday that as of 2006 there were 22,146 American doctors in residency programs in the United States specializing in primary care.
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February 13, 2008 |
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| Gene Involved In Blood Stem Cell Replication, Movement, Identified
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| Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a gene that is responsible for the division and movement of marrow-derived, blood-forming stem cells, a finding that could have major implications for the future of bone marrow and blood cell transplantation.
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April 12, 2008 |
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| Giving biometrics a hand
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| Palm-reading system used to safeguard patient records.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| Google ventures into health records biz
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| Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
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February 21, 2008 |
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| Google, Microsoft and the Online Health Divide
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| A health care consultant sees services from Google and Microsoft as complementary; Google disagrees.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| Health care battle a big issue for voting families
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| Three share their struggles with paying for insurance and medical attention.
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October 23, 2008 |
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| Hospitals Spending More Money to Make Patients Comfortable
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| Submitting to chemotherapy, radiation treatments, MRIs, CT scans and the like can be bad enough. But often, dreary, windowless rooms and corridors only worsen the experience.
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August 21, 2008 |
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| How to cut the nation's health care bill 12%
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| Here is a quick, simple way to cut America's total health care bill by one-eighth.
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October 31, 2008 |
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| How will Microsoft's initiatives impact health care?
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| At a big medical conference last week, Microsoft dove deeper into an maelstrom of industry health care solutions aimed at meeting the demands of government regulators, hospitals, insurance firms, and consumers. Can the team from Redmond swim the distance against competitors including IBM and Google?
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March 7, 2008 |
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| HP Helps Healthcare Providers Improve Patient Care, Regulatory Compliance with Medical Archiving Solution
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| HP today introduced a specialized archiving platform to help global healthcare providers, hospitals and imaging clinics of all sizes meet rapidly expanding retention requirements for medical images.
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January 10, 2008 |
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| In-Home Medical Devices Market To Reach $5B by 2011
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| A new study says the market is growing 10 percent per year, led by remote glucometers and blood-pressure monitors.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| Medical errors costing $1.5 billion annually
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| Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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July 27, 2008 |
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| Merck And The Shrinking Drug Industry
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| Merck announced this morning it would cut 7,200 jobs, 11% of its work force, at the same time it trimmed earnings forecasts for the next several years. A quarter of Merck's executives will lose their jobs as part of the new plan.
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October 22, 2008 |
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| Microsoft`s Patient Plans
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| Patients want to see, feel, handle and distribute their health information the way they do their bank records, Microsoft says.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Microsoft, SAP Team on Health Care Tech
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| Microsoft and SAP said they will target the health care industry with Duet, software that integrates their desktop and back-end business applications.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| More health care cost pain in 2009
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| 10 percent expected rise the smallest in 6 years, according to survey.
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August 11, 2008 |
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| More states shred bills for awful medical errors
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| Patients in 23 states will no longer pay for certain mistakes, hospitals say.
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August 12, 2008 |
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| Most Americans want overhaul of health system
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| More than 80 percent surveyed said major changes needed.
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August 7, 2008 |
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| Moving virus lab isn't just risky -- it's costly, too
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| Report: Foot-and-mouth outbreak could top $4 billion at potential locations.
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June 20, 2008 |
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| Primary Care Physicians a Dying Breed
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| Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system.
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September 10, 2008 |
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| Surgical errors cost $1.5 billion a year
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| Report: Serious mistakes stemming from technical problems, infections.
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August 12, 2008 |
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| Tissue-specific Blood Stem Cell Line Established From Embryonic Stem Cells
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| A deeper understanding of the regulation of blood stem cells is important if we are to be able to further develop treatments for diseases that require bone marrow transplants, such as leukemia, immune deficiencies, and anemia disorders.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| U.S. still flunks health care test, report finds
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| Americans more likely to die of treatable illnesses despite high spending.
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July 17, 2008 |
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| Umbilical cord stem cells transport anti-cancer drugs directly to tumors
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| Kansas State University researchers are working on a method of delivering cancer drugs that promises to be more efficient and reduce the side effects patients have to deal with.
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July 10, 2008 |
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| Warnings for Online Health Record Systems
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| The New York Times points us to an article, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that raises some warnings about taking personal health records online, and entrusting them to third parties not bound by HIPAA regulations.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Where you live determines your quality of care
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| What to know before you schedule a surgery or fill a prescription.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| VA patients in Pa. given inadequate cancer care
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| 55 men with prostate cancer given too-low doses of radiation, study says.
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September 9, 2008 |
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| Your health care records under Big Business
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| Google, Microsoft and other mega US businesses are being accepted as major controllers of your health care records.
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June 27, 2008 |
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