Once More, With Feeling
Here they come again tonight. More Clinton. This time it's Bill. Dear god, do these people ever consider gracefully exiting the stage? Any stage? Her stupidly formulaic lecture last night was beyond endurance. The wide eyes, the pursed, snarky smile, the complete absence of content in what she said - it was all so Hillary Clinton. I'll write about it tomorrow. Tonight? Tune in if you haven't decided I'm such a sexist pig I have become just another irrelevant male on the radio. (I got that suggestion today in an email.)  read more »

A Detailed Analysis of Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Plan

By Robert Laszewski

Barack Obama’s health care plan follows the Democratic template—an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending significant money upfront  read more »

Election Year News: Why most media coverage consistently fails to address issues important to working class families.

Health Insurance: In light of continued losses in private-pay health care coverage, government programs are picking up the slack and providing health insurance to the neediest Americans.  read more »

Some good news, first: those nice people at, erm, NICE (the National Institute for Clinical Excellency) have reversed their position on the sight drug Lucentis. Patients with age-related macular degeneration will now be able to receive the drug from the NHS on diagnosis, rather than having to wait until they are blind in one eye.  read more »

Call us 830-624-8380 for help with your loved one. Home Instead Senior Care New Braunfels, helps seniors stay home longer.

Continued from our post August 25th - Communications gaps between seniors & surgeons.

Researchers found that 84 percent of older adult concerns were related to the surgery itself. Those most frequently voiced were about anticipated quality of life after surgery, the post-surgery care facility and timing of the surgery.  read more »

Choice has just published a survey saying that Australian general practitioners are reliant on pharmaceutical reps for much of the information they learn about new treatments, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

"Even though only 24 per cent of doctors trusted the information as much as an independent source, most (81 per cent) would rather receive it because it was often the only way to get timely information on new drugs," the SMH reports.  read more »

In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 46.6 million people without health insurance. Who are these people? Here are a couple things you probably won't hear from politicians, whether Democratic or Republican:  read more »

This is why all universal health care plans mandate insurance enrollment for the population.

Vibrant images of persons receiving the best of preventative care promote universal and or single payer health care. No ingrown toenail untreated, no druggie unmethodoned, TLC succors all. How you wish to know, is this possible. Progressive magic of course is the answer.  read more »

The Journal of American Medical Association published a study on June 25th, 2008 that landed on my desk like a bomb.  Well, actually, as usual, only the absctract landed on my desk, with big yellow highlighter on the conclusion, which said:

In a controlled nonclinical setting, RFID induced potentially hazardous incidents in medical devices. Implementation of RFID in the critical care environment should require on-site EMI tests and updates of international standards.  read more »