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Avanir Pharmaceuticals F4Q09 (Qtr End 09/30/2009) Earnings Call Transcript
Blog | seekingalpha.com | 17 hours 24 minutes ago
Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVNR)F4Q09 (Qtr End 09/30/2009) Earnings Call<a
Caplan: Pay Up for Quality Care, Or Else
Blog | blog.bioethics.net | Nov 23, 2009
The trent toward concierge medicine is not a good thing, says Art Caplan, today on MSNBC.com. Why not just draw a big bright yellow line across the street that indicates that "the haves" can get quality care over here and...
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/11/caplan-pay-up-for-quality-care-or-else/
Irish Medical Times | The Irish Medical Times Blog | HSE publishes review of EDs and emergency care
Blog | www.IMT.ie | Nov 18, 2009
“We recognise that Bantry General Hospital serves a remote, rural population and it will continue to have a 24/7, 365 days a year service for patients with medical emergencies, e.g. a patient with serious pneumonia needing urgent admission.
http://www.IMT.ie/blogs/irish-Medical-Times-Blog/2009/11/hse-publishes-review-of-eds-an.html
EHR Implementation: Process and Technology Overlap | Healthcare IT News
Blog | www.healthcareitnews.com | Nov 13, 2009
For years, IT Management Consultants have instructed their clients to not do system implementations for technology's sake. Core to this philosophy is ensuring that system implementations combine people, process, and technology versus attempting to automate manual processes and behaviors.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/blog/ehr-implementation-process-and-technology-overlap
When Rival Drug Makers Compare Notes On Safety Problems (at The Wall Street Journal Online)
Blog | blogs.wsj.com | Nov 11, 2009
Three drug makers will share data to try to understand why certain patients develop a rare brain infection. It's the latest example of drug makers collaborating to study safety problems.
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Never mind the quality ... get the points
Blog | www.6minutes.com.au | Nov 5, 2009
When performance targets were introduced in the UK, the government was somewhat taken aback to find that GPs were already doing their job properly and getting 100% all the time. So they moved the goalposts and set more unrealistic targets.
http://www.6minutes.com.au/michael_blog/blogposts.asp?postid=817
Obese? Your Doctor May Have Less Respect For You
Blog | weblogs.baltimoresun.com | Oct 28, 2009
Anyone who has struggled with their weight knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of fat jokes. Despite a national obesity epidemic, our society isn't particularly sensitive to overweight people. Doctors included.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2009/10/physicians_have_less_respect_f.html
Judge Bars Restrictive Oklahoma Abortion Law Requiring Online Posting of Patient Data
Blog | latimesblogs.latimes.com | Oct 27, 2009
While Californians mull whether a fetus is a person, a state judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new Oklahoma law that would require doctors to report detailed information about abortion patients, which would then be posted online. The law,...
Cancer Patients Twice As Likely To Fall Into Fuel Poverty As The General Population
Blog | blogit.realwire.com | Oct 27, 2009
Macmillan Calls On Government To Extend Winter Fuel Payment To Cancer Patients Paying fuel bills can be hard at the best of times but you are twice as likely to fall into fuel poverty[1] if recently treated for cancer, according to new research from Macmillan Cancer Support...
Blue light-filtering increases macular pigment, may protect against age-related vision loss |
Blog | www.scienceblog.com | Oct 26, 2009
The study, conducted by leading ophthalmology and vision researchers from the Macular Pigment Research Group at the Waterford Institute of Technology, is published in the October 2009 issue of the high impact journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS).1
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