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COST OF ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 30-04-2010
An interesting fact.
For $4300, you can spend 26 nights and 26 days traveling from Florida to Europe on a luxury cruise liner. You can get a suite with a balcony for little over $5200. On the way you will get to enjoy to sights and sounds of Gibraltar, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Monte Carlo, Turkey, Greece and more. You will be served three delicious meals a day - many of which are all you can eat. You will get to enjoy live entertainment, swimming pools, outdoor entertainment and more - all inclusive.
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Kaiser Permanente Testing 2 IPads at the Garfield Healthcare Innovation Center
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-04-2010
This is an update from an article that ran in the SF Gate not too long ago relative to what Kaiser Permanente was going to do with the potential of bringing in some new hardware the Ipads. As you can read below they have 2 of them and it is work in progress. If you are not familiar with the Garfield Technology Center use
the link below where I spoke with their leader Chris McCarthy and find out.
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WHO IS THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR HEALTH CARE SHIP?
Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 29-04-2010
There was an article in our local paper today about Physician Assistants being used more and more in hospital settings and medical practices. I know of PA’s that treat depression, perform minor surgeries - they can almost do it all.
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Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teaching Hospitals
Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 29-04-2010
Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately.
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Jon Stewart - Apple in Pursuit of Their Prototype Phone – Is There an App For That?
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-04-2010
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Judge Rejects Prosecutors’ Lenient Settlement of the Case of the Hidden Defibrillator Defects
Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 29-04-2010
We just discussed the proposed settlement of a case in which the Guidant subsidiary of Boston Scientific was alleged to have withheld information about defects in its implantable cardiac defibrillators that were associated with six patient deaths (see next most recent post here with more complete summary). The devices were manufactured in 2000-02, and the issue first became public in 2005. The proposed settlement included a seemingly large fine for the company.
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Microsoft Tag is now in TV Guide – We Could Use These Too In Healthcare at the FDA For Recalled Devices and Finding Stolen Drugs
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 28-04-2010
I really like this technology and it is interesting to see it emerge in entertainment and I would like to see this same technology save lives too, if we can wake up the FDA and some of the drug and device companies to at least take a look. Scan that stent before it is used in surgery in case it was missed being pulled as people die getting implanted with defective and recalled devices.
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Didget Blood Glucose Monitoring Device From Bayer Works With Nintendo DS – Combining Gaming With Glucose Testing
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 27-04-2010
Why is glucose testing becoming a game, check the link out below for more information. Some may have a different opinion and I can understand both sides of this
argument too. By making it a game do we lose some of the importance here, or are we encouraging kids to monitor their glucose? I cant say myself which is perhaps the right answer. I do say as I commented below, we do like to be entertained and sometimes this is an avenue to get attention.
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Doctor at Yale Medical School Shoots and Kills Another Doctor
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 27-04-2010
Yale University has another murder and this one is not related to the hospital but rather disagreements that occurred between the 2 doctors at a prior hospital where they were employed. Dr. Wang was fired from the other hospital in 2008 after he refused to take a disability leave. This is sad story as it appears he tracked him down outside his home. BD