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Specially prepared maggots have been approved by the FDA since 2004 for neuropathic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers,venous stasis ulcers, and traumatic and post-surgical wounds. Insurance companies spend thousands of dollars for an amputation but back off at a $100.00 maggot treatment. The American...
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Well perhaps not a moment too soon this device was approved today and perhaps maybe an alternative treatment. BD FDA Clears The DPL (Deep Penetrating Light) Therapy System For Over-the-Counter - Home Use This looks very interesting, as it appears you can have both minor pain relief...
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Love the added BeeGees effect and he just really nails hormone therapy for women! http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/11/15/stephen-colbert-for-fda-commissioner/ Technorati Tags: FDA , Comedy Central , Stephen Colbert , BeeGees , HRT , Jupiter report
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Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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With the backlash the FDA has sustained this last year, a lot of it related to lack of technology and not being up to par, perhaps this will turn out to be a productive trip. Earlier I posted about remote monitoring and how technology could expand and help with monitoring food products, when you...
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I will once more mention a potential change of paradigms here with educating the public. Each patient who took the drug is unique. Do we have any information on other drugs they were taking at the same time? Groups will continue to advise against the use until the full facts are known...
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The new knee won’t be available until next year; however the web site states that the device will be able to be customized, in other words more of a custom fit instead of a one size that fits all. Hopefully the new design might offer a little longer lifetime as well. BD Cardo Medical...
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This certainly seems to be the month of the “brain devices”. Just last week the FDA approved one magnetic device to zap your brain and now we have another company from Israel to begin trials in Israel and 2 other areas. The device approved for last week is only for severe cases of depression...
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You even get a choice of colors, Blue, Hot Pint or Black. The product uses Intense Pulsed Light delivers a series of light pulses in 6 seconds that safely penetrate the skin to eliminate the bacteria that cause acne, an acne zapper. It is small enough to carry in your purse if needed. ...
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It appears the melamine is in the feed that was fed to the chickens, so it makes one wonder how far does the melamine go and how far back can you track it. First it was the milk products with adding melamine to make the nutritional values look better and now it goes back to the feed given to the...
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Whistle blowers today seem to be playing a role in the move towards transparency in more ways than one, not to mention the bounty that could be there if a case goes to court and wrongdoing is found to be the case. BD A New Jersey arbitrator ruled that a former Amgen sales rep can proceed with a...
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That might explain a couple odd stories of earlier this year, like the pilot program of the “Fake commercials” being tested, but there has also been an attempt to increase awareness at YouTube with FDA material as well, perhaps to even encouraging a bit of humor as I found on this video on YouTube, which...
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The reason for mentioning this is that a vendor of a food product could have a shipping document that shows a US point of shipping, in other words, the delivery document that is signed at the time of delivery on “blind” shipments would not indicate to the vendor where the product originated, as well...
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Another economic decision, cocoa butter — the ingredient famous for giving chocolate its creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture has been replaced with vegetable oil. The FDA definition of milk chocolate requires cocoa butter, so changes have appeared on the labels of the Hershey’s products that have vegetable...
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If you have a dog you may want to take a look and see which products are in the recall batches. We have to watch out for man's and woman's best friend. BD Mars Pet Food announced a voluntary recall of many brands of dog food and cat food on 9/12/08 due to "potential contamination...