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If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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The Medical Quack
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11-30-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria
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This one is very interesting so say the least, and it sounds like a software issue of sorts, not enough audit tables or was the data corrupted? Being a geek those are the questions that come to my mind when I hear the word “integrity” , but it may not be the issue at all. Who does the...
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He will be busy no doubt looking for directors and managers for the FDA, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid soon and probably the biggest looming question of all the departments is the FDA, who’s up next? BD President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former US Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle...
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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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This court case has been in the news of late and now with the current ruling, it adds on one more layer of responsibility to the Name Brand drug company, in other words when the generic versions come out and are prescribed, they can piggyback the exact same warnings, thus the name brand company is now...
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The Medical Quack
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11-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Pharma, Heatlhcare, Side Effects, Warnings, Lawsuits, liability, Generice drugs, drugs. name band drugs
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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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They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure might be associated with a SNOMED (Systematized...
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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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What if we all took Crestor to reduce the chance of developing heart disease? Happy Hospitalist does a pretty good job here on lining it all up! Talk about side effects. BD All Americans will now get Crestor to reduce their CRP to reduce their chances of developing heart disease...
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If this gets approved, I hope the taste will not be gone from the diet drinks if the “natural” sweetener is what the article states. Certainly don’t want a product that doesn’t taste as good, and I hope this is for a better product and not another economic decision as we have seen so much of lately...
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I just thought it was good for relieving stress! Speaking of stress I had to include the video below as well since we are on the topic. Seriously though if the new film is in fact razor sharp, there could be some areas with medical devices for use. BD (PhysOrg.com) -- Whoever...
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Well it took some spitting and DNA to give us the answers. I missed the articles earlier and always somewhat wondered myself, well the mystery is no longer that. By using the Ancestry Tools at 23AndMe , the word is out, that the 2 are not related, so no complications on being included in...
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One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly fee, you might need to be a patient with some...
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11-06-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco
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MSD has two vaccines and has research in other areas. Vaccines for hepatitis-A, Chickenpox and rotavirus are on the agenda to be released soon. BD Even as global financial slowdown is forcing companies to retrench jobs, MSD Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of US-based Merck & Co, today...
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Just recently I posted about China looking to revert back to universal health care and this report appears to document that the government and other entities are in fact looking universal care seriously as a solution. Over 200 individuals took part in creating the massive report. BD BEIJING...