The guidelines were recently set for psa tests for men at the same age as well, 50 to 75 is now the 25 time frame. BD The utility of cancer screening over the course of a lifetime follows a sort of bell curve. Now federal guidelines suggest that most people can stop getting colonoscopies...
There is a full web page dedicated with several links to obtain the basic information; FAQs can be found here. Get the facts is another site that may be of interest as well. BD Helpful Clinical Trial Information. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) will...
The risks are greater if you the glutathione S-transferase M1, or GSTM1 genes, so it appears we need to find out if we have that gene as females to see how risky talcum powder would be. I guess sooner or late we are all going to want to know more about our genes so we can figure out not only what...
“ There's nothing in the rules that says you can't get divorced for Medicaid”…first it was getting married for insurance benefits and now it’s getting divorced for Medicaid. Healthcare is starting to erode a lot of ethics here , and all due to money. If this doesn’t point out that...
In other words, this is called Business Intelligence. Lots of it out there to choose from and one from Microsoft specifically related to hospital management and budgets. Before the demise of Wall Street it wasn’t too long ago that I posted about the All Nighter they pulled to mine and try...
The answer was “it’s best to leave this up to the scientists”, which is probably the correct response as there does not appear to be enough documented information yet. Do we start a clinical trial on cell phones maybe, there certainly is not a lack of potential candidates here (grin). I guess...
The tool is designed for use by doctors and will still need to go through clinical trials to determine accuracy and effectiveness. This is a joint effort and will be tested at Harvard Medical School and the Cleveland Clinic. Radiation oncologists and urologists are the targeted physicians...
We have all heard about bionic people and now we have a bionic dog! Nice story since his paw was amputated due to cancer. It wasn’t cheap by any means, but if you can afford to help your best friend, why not, nice story. BD It’s a material world all right, but every...
Even though he was not able to attend personally, modern technology of video conferencing made it possible for the Senator to continue his efforts and participation. As fuel prices continue to rise, along with just general state of the economy, video conferencing is finally coming of age. ...
This is probably a good move to speed this process up since many pharmaceutical companies have and are looking at moving more trials to India. More information can be read here about the changing face of Pharma in reference to research and development. One more area to think about too is the use...