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We always focus on New Orleans but there were other areas hard hit 5 years ago too and this is one of them.  The reasons slated here for the layoffs is back to the same old story, money.  Reductions in Medicare and Medicaid are at the top of...

This recent Frost and Sullivan study (requires registration to access) has been making the healthcare IT and EMR blog rounds lately. The parts of the study that are most interesting to consider is their estimated EHR market size. A study by Frost &...

  Diabetes drug metformin reduced cancers in mice Mice treated orally with the diabetes drug metformin had 40-50 percent fewer lung tumors than untreated mice WASHINGTON — A popular drug that is used by millions of diabetics around the world significantly...

Mr. Chopra is definitely a cheer leader and has the ideas going in the right direction and offers some good ideas and examples of where they are going and how the challenge programs are working to bring those to the table for the challenge. He mentions...

This is an old saying we have probably all used about not knowing how to tie our shoes, well it appears Nike is taking this to heart.  About 2-3 years ago I was sitting around with some of the top geek folks I know, including a few from Microsoft...

This is an interesting technology as it uses sound waves to help fight the battle with treating urological cancer.  Last year it was announced that he also joined the “think tank” of Newt Gingrich.  Von Eschenbach Joins Newt Gingrich’s Think...

The bigger pharma companies continue with acquisitions and FoldRX focuses on niche disease cures in the neurological area.  Next year is when the patent expires for Lipitor and the company is looking for ways to replace lost revenue that will occur...

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