China’s a communist country, totally different from the capitalist U.S., right? They probably have some sort of socialized health system that makes Canada look downright libertarian. Right?
No.
I was talking to a friend (who I’ll call “Pu”) this week. She was surprised that I had to bend over backward to get someone insulin. [...]

Perhaps, as no one is currently held accountable for cost in our current feed from the trough FREE=MORE.

A recent NPR/KFF/HSPH survey reported that 55% of Americans believe that their insurance company should have to pay for an expensive treatment, even if has not been proven to be more effective than a less expensive treatment. This [...]

The lovely adenosine pause. I did this just the other day. Rates of 160 and then Bam

Not any more.

Middle class families with thousands of dollars of expenses will end up paying more:
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Readers who have an iPhone or iTouch, might like to know that the first Radiopaedia Radiology Teaching File is now available for download (free) from the itunes app store. 50 CNS cases comprising 170 images, questions and detailed text. Just search for radiology and you should find it easily enough.
From Sumer’s [...]

We have just finished our very first round of new experiments in the lab and I am excited to send the samples we collected off to a company for processing. These samples contain a series of metal-labeled reagents that we’re using for the first time and that we’ve used to tag our item of [...]

Where are the lawyers?

Despite having been informed on April 25 in clear and certain terms that electronic cigarettes are not produced by Big Tobacco, SmokeFree Wisconsin apparently told the media – for a May 9th column – that e-cigarettes are a ploy of the tobacco companies.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel column by Patrick McIlheran published on May 9th quotes SmokeFree [...]

As I write today in FierceEMR, consummate Washington insider publication The Hill made a rather glaring mistake in reporting earlier this week that the $1.2 billion in federal grant funding for health information exchange and regional health IT extension centers can’t be awarded until HHS finalizes its definition of “meaningful use.”
In fact, the Office of [...]

Today’s post comes to your courtesy of yet another of my revered Canadian colleagues: pharmacist Scott Gavura, author of the excellent Science-Based Pharmacy blog.

Back in April, 21 Venezuelan polo horses from the Lechuza team died at the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Palm Beach County, Florida after being injected with a compounded supplement similar to [...]