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| Aug 21, 2018 | The Simplest Solution To The Expanding Universe's Biggest Controversy | The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a... [+] smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. It took thousands of scientists working for hundreds of years for us to arrive at this pic... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Vaccination standoff? Doctors should listen to – not shun – reluctant parents
Parents need to be respected | Vaccines save between two and three million lives per year by protecting individuals from diseases such as measles, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and others. Clean water is the only other public intervention to save more lives than ... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Column:: Farewell to drug regulation? Trump nominates a ‘bona-fide pharma shill’ to head the FDA | Lots of people in the health care field heaved a sigh of relief last week when President Trump nominated Scott Gottlieb, a physician, venture investor and former official of the Food and Drug Administration, to be the FDA’s next commissione... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | ‘Dr. Oz Show’ will again talk miracles with faith healing segment | “The Dr. Oz Show,” which has come under fire from physicians and politicians for promoting “miracle” cures with no evidence, will launch a new weekly segment on the connections between spirituality and health that veers, once again, into th... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Senate effort to increase access to experimental drugs is blocked | An effort to get the US Senate to pass a so-called Right to Try bill failed Wednesday when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blocked the effort, because a hearing was never held to review the legislation and only two of the 42 sponsors was ... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (Feb – April) | Friday, April 29 The big news right now
The Senate left for recess without wrapping up a Zika funding deal (the Atlantic)
Quest Diagnostics says it has received emergency authorization from the FDA to sell its Zika virus test (Reuters)
Zika... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Internet Filters Tried to Get Us to Stop Swearing, But Shit Finds a Way | The British city of Scunthorpe has had a problem dogging it for decades, and lazy online programmers are to blame. Online swear filters have become a lot more sophisticated in recent years, but they'll never be able to stop us from truly ta... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Autism Parents Still Buying Into Bleach Cure From Self-Described Space Alien God | A hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away (Space Telescope Science Institute via AP) |
| Feb 16, 2016 | Monsanto Is at the Center of a Huge Zika Conspiracy Theory | Recently, growing worries about the rising prevalence of the mosquito-borne Zika virus has been tied to new cases of microcephaly, a birth abnormality that affects brain development in infants.
And while the World Health Organization has no... |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Morning Read: JP Morgan 2016 (the final chapter) | Celgene CEO: Any company that expects to have a major position in the industry a decade from now will almost have to play a big role in developing therapies for neurodegeneration. – FierceBiotech
Optimism After A Stormy Week For The Biotech... |
| Nov 23, 2015 | Ben Carson The Paradox: A respected surgeon now in search of presidency, baffling science-minded Americans | It’s no mystery that Carson is devoutly Christian and has both gained and lost potential followers based on his extreme commentary about things such as same-sex marriage, pedophilia, climate change, creationism, 9/11, veterans affairs or IS... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | Crazy eyeball innovations, Hep C’s big Medicare price tag and a beautiful patient story (Morning Read) | Get ready to talk all your non-healthcare buddies down about futuristic eye innovations. It’s going very public very fast. Last week, we discussed 3D printed eyes with WiFi. Now people are talking about injecting eyes with night vision, and... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Epic-CommonWell beef and more on that New York Times cell phone story (Morning Read) | LIFE SCIENCE
A big move by Index Ventures and Johnson & Johnson: XO1 joins the J&J portfolio.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Lamberto Andreotti’s final CEO paycheck: $27 million.
MeMed’s infection blood test gets a big boost through new res... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | New York Times: No, wearables are not the new cigarettes | The story’s author, Nick Bilton, defended the column that appeared in the Style Section, telling Sullivan:
“The reality is, we still don’t know definitively the causes of cellphones and cancer, but I can tell you one thing, as a technology ... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Can chocolate bars with silver nanoparticles cure Ebola? FDA Commissioner riffs on fraud | But the fact of the matter is that the Nigerian top health official introduced an experimental product, called Nano Silver, was being tested in a handful of infected Nigerians, the Wall Street Journal reported in August. Little has been sai... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | An Elevator to Space in the Works by Japanese Company, Aimed for 2050 Launch | Ever feel like escaping far, far away for a bit? Like, out-of-this-planet far away?
Considering Virgin Galactic’s flight to space set to launch this year, and the newly updated plans to build an elevator leading to Earth’s outer atmosphere ... |
| May 28, 2014 | Conspiracy Theorist And Alternative Medicine Salesman Threatens To Sue Writer For Publishing True Statements About Him | When you start claiming you’ve been defamed and sic your legal team on allegedly offending writers, you’d better make sure you haven’t built up a body of work that reinforces the statements you’re now asserting are bogus. |
| Jul 24, 2013 | AIDS Denialist Files Defamation Suit In Hopes Of Silencing HIV-Positive Critic | Ken White at Popehat has fired up the Popehat Signal again, seeking legal assistance for a blogger on the receiving end of legal abuse from the “most despised inhabitant of the internet playground: the bully who can dish it out but can’t ta... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Think you like what you like? Think again | Placebo effect in full effect
A funny thing happens when you lie to people: they tend to believe. Why shouldn’t they? They lie to themselves all the time. Our minds are wired to respond in predictable ways–among them is perceiving the world... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | Japanese neuroscientists decode human dreams | For several years researchers have been trying to apply the tools of science to get inside our heads. It is a noble effort that, when finally achieved, will represent a huge triumph of mankind over nature. Researchers at the ATR Computation... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | New diagnostics firm asks: Can genes give clues about who’s at risk for antidepressant-related suicide and violence? | The existence of a link between antidepressants and thoughts of suicide isn’t so much the question. Regulatory agencies in the U.S., Canada and Europe require antidepressants to carry “black-box warnings” that they may increase the risk for... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | How PeerJ Is Changing Everything In Academic Publishing | Has there ever been a business more ripe for disruption than academic publishing? For anyone who’s not been following along, the business model of academic publishers, built on solving 18th century distribution problems, incarnates the Shir... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Megabad: A quick look at the state of Mega’s encryption | reader comments 188 with 95 posters participating, including story author
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Kim Dotcom settles case he filed against NZ police over “military-style raid”
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| Aug 6, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: Ex-Boeing engineer matches serious gamers with Teamfind | Like a tennis partner or golf buddy, finding a gaming companion who shares your goals and skill level can be hard. Teamfind, with more than 21,000 members, is working to ease the pain by empowering players to find a perfect match. Not only ... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | Does Burzynski movie buzz come at the worst time for the FDA? | Since a 2010 release, the Burzynski movie has picked up steam. It has aired multiple times on the Documentary Channel and is among the nominees in the channel’s contest for best premier in 2011. Amazon.com sells the Burzynski movie and it’s... |
| Nov 19, 2011 | Racism And Meritocracy | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup. Follow him @ericries.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion ... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Child food allergies: 1 in 13 kids crying out for new policy? (Morning Read) | Many schools are already aggressive about managing food allergies, and the Centers for Disease Control is already working on national guidelines for schools to manage food allergies. But will the next step be state-by-state mandates for foo... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Will autism-vaccine links hurt Jim Carrey, Mr. Popper’s Penguins? (Morning Read) | Plus, the timing for Carrey couldn’t be worse. Bill Gates and the UK have just announced they’ll spend $2.3 billion to proliferate vaccinations worldwide.
More vaccines, suddenly, are cool again.
Medicare: No one knows what they really want... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | E. coli outbreak: Bean sprouts and the blame game (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Europe e. coli aftermath. There isn’t much science behind the claim that bean sprouts from a German farm caused the deadly E. coli outbreak th... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Healthcare reform’s D-Day — with more to come (Morning Read) | Hospital building binge grows. More than two-thirds of hospitals are undergoing construction — as much as a 40 percent increase over last year.
FDA approvals and rejections. Cook Medical received FDA approval for two renal stents and the FD... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Healthcare lawsuit swells to 26 states | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Healthcare lawsuit swells to 26 states. Six more states said Tuesday they would join the lawsuit in Florida over the healthcare reform legislation’s individual mandate, meaning more than half of the country will challen... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War | Anyone who has studied tactics, for battle or otherwise, knows Sun Tzu’s legendary work, The Art Of War. Or at least they should. In reviewing what the first chapter of that work teaches about the five factors a battling faction must consid... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Pepsi spill causes sticky mess in science blogging ecosystem | reader comments 58 with 36 posters participating, including story author
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The potential for blogs and other new forms of communication to reshape the media landscape has alm... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Morning Read: Indian biotech’s prominence grows | Walgreen splitting with CVS: Walgreen will no longer participate in any new or renewed prescription-drug plans awarded to CVS Caremark’s pharmacy benefit-manager business. Walgreen said it does not get enough information from CVS about new ... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | 23andMe Sends Wrong DNA Test Results To 96 Customers | Sending your spit sample to a startup may not seem like such a good idea, after all. On Friday, 23andMe, the company that allows consumers to get portions of their genome tested for a relatively modest fee, announced that “a number of new 2... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Morning Read: Nurse practitioners–the new primary care providers? | But the tide may be turning in nurses’ favor. The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, which funds programs designed to improve the education of health care professionals, recently recommended that regulators immediately act to remove legal and reim... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | The “Cadillac” tax lives: MedCity Morning Read, Jan. 15 | Promoted
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| Dec 9, 2009 | Hot air: Sarah Palin slams climate change summit | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copen... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Hot air: Sarah Palin slams climate change summit | “The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse,” reads an op-ed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in today’s Washington Post. Highlighting the “Climategat... |
| Nov 10, 2009 | Can't afford a scanning electron microscope? Here, borrow ours! | This could be awesome: Aspex, a company that makes scanning electron microscopes for those among us who need them, says you can send in stuff and they’ll put up pictures of it. Pictures they took through their scanning electron microscope. ... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | FDA to consider small inhaler for diabetes patients – MedCity Morning Read, Oct. 12, 2009 | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | Open Science And Closed Science: Aren't Papers Supposed To Be A Part Of The Conversation? | It’s no secret that we’ve got some serious problems with the way the old school scientific journals work — basically locking up scientific research rather than really living up to their mandate to spread scientific knowledge. Stephen alerts... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | Pacific Biosciences takes $68M as genome sequencing becomes more competitive | Pacific Biosciences, one of the companies working to advance DNA sequencing technology, just brought in $68 million in new financing — bringing its total raised over the last year to a staggering $188 million. The Menlo Park, Calif., firm s... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | 23andMe Launches $99 Kit To Spur Its 'Research Revolution' | 23andMe isn’t making too many headlines in tech circles any more, but there’s little doubt in my mind that it, or at least companies like it, will become incredibly important over the next decade or so. Affordable genetic testing will likel... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | Two bills to renew SBIR program clash on venture capital inclusion — MedCity Morning Read, June 29, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two bills aimed at renewing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program are at odds about how much grant money companies that have received venture capital investments should be able to get.
One bill to ... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Steve Jobs get a new liver | It seems that some in the media and the blogosphere have tried to tiptoe around the suggestion that something unsavory occured in this case. Two facts are often cited: 1) Steven Jobs received the transplant in a state where he doesn’t resid... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Welcome to the Web, doctor. Can I trust you? | Health systems should feel pressed to find these kinds of partnerships, said Diana Keough, a MedicalMommas co-founder. This is the era of the Oprah Effect. Anecdotal and personal experiences carry more weight than ever when reinforced by a... |
| May 25, 2009 | The “Ida” fossil: on missing links and media circuses | reader comments 50 with 36 posters participating
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Is it safe to write about Darwinius masillae yet? It has been about a week since news first started leaking out about a fos... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Suggested Google-Twitter tweets for Biz Stone | Oh, Biz Stone. A blog post about the swirling rumors of Twitter's acquisition by Google? Really? I mean, you were certainly coy enough -- the post is titled "Sometimes we talk" (cue hipster shrug) and includes an emphatically nonc... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Royal Pingdom Says Our Load Times Suck, And So Do Those Of Most Other Big Blogs | As blogs grow and try to cram more and more stuff on their homepage, load times are becoming a bigger problem. According to Royal Pingdom, 74 of the top 100 blogs have home pages crammed with so much stuff (more than 500 kilobytes) that any... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Keep your hands off of our technology, say Mac users | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Owners of Apple products may also be big fans of the brand in general, a fact that makes them an... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Online Gambling Deals Between US And Other Countries Are A Matter Of National Security? | Remember back in December, the EU, Canada and Japan suddenly agreed not to side with Antigua in the longstanding dispute over the US’s online gambling ban violating free trade agreements? It was pretty clear that the US had cut some sort of... |
| Aug 28, 2007 | Stronger Copyrights Are Important! Except, You Know, When It Means We Have To Pay Some Money | It’s always amusing to catch the hypocritical actions of the groups that purport to be in favor of strong copyright rules, but throw those rules right out the window the second it saves them a few bucks. The latest such story involves a gro... |
| Jun 19, 2007 | Genetics roundup: The secrets of DNA, peering into Watson’s genome — and yawning, and more | What secrets lurk in the heart of DNA? — Didn’t the Human Genome Project answer that question? Think again. Last week, scientists involved in a project called Encode reported on a detailed analysis of one percent of the genome, and the find... |
| Apr 24, 2007 | Roundup: Thailand vs. Big Pharma, kids with heart disease, biomedical research funding, and more | Arm wrestling over drug patents — Three months ago, the military government running Thailand informed Abbott Laboratories that it intended to break the company’s patents on several expensive drugs, including the HIV protease inhibitor Kalet... |
| Can chocolate bars with silver nanoparticles cure Ebola? FDA Commissioner riffs on fraud | U.S. regulators have come across some serious quackery when it comes to Ebola treatments: Take, for instance, the chocolate bar filled with silver nanoparticles touted to treat the deadly virus, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at thi... |
| Morning Read: Indian biotech’s prominence grows | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Indian biotech’s prominence grows: Five years ago, big biotechnology firm collaborations in India were restricted to fee-for-service deals, but that’s changing as... |
| Epic-CommonWell beef and more on that New York Times cell phone story (Morning Read) | The Morning Read provides a 24-hour wrap up of everything else healthcare’s innovators need to know about the business of medicine (and beyond). The author of The Read published it but all full-time MedCity News journalists contribute to it... |
| Crazy eyeball innovations, Hep C’s big Medicare price tag and a beautiful patient story (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
Sticker shock on the costs of Hep C drugs means the industry better show ROI fast. Read this ProPublica piece for all the gaudiness: Medicare spent $4.5 billion on new hepatitis C drugs last year
A great Q&A with Anne Parker... |
| The “Cadillac” tax lives: MedCity Morning Read, Jan. 15 | Image by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton via Flickr
Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care:
The Cadillac tax lives: It appears that the tax on so-called expensive “Cadillac” health plans (it’s a shame t... |
| Will autism-vaccine links hurt Jim Carrey, Mr. Popper’s Penguins? (Morning Read) | A healthcare backlash against Jim Carrey? I didn’t stop watching Tom Cruise movies because of his bizarre behavior and Scientology background. I didn’t stop listening to the Dixie Chicks after their 9/11 comments. But every time I see an ad... |
| Child food allergies: 1 in 13 kids crying out for new policy? (Morning Read) | Current healthcare news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Time for a child allergy czar? One in 13 children have a food allergy according to a study released Monday. The number isn’t as surprising ... |
| New York Times: No, wearables are not the new cigarettes | After swift backlash to the ridiculously labeled article on the health concerns of wearable technology, the New York Times is at least addressing reader concerns in a column by Public Editor Margaret Sullivan.
She notes that the original pr... |
| E. coli outbreak: Bean sprouts and the blame game (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Europe e. coli aftermath. There isn’t much science behind the claim that bean sprouts from a German farm caused the deadly E. coli outbreak th... |
| Steve Jobs get a new liver | Dr. Jeffery Parks is a board certified general surgeon working in Cleveland who writes regulary at Buckeye Surgeon.
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Steven Jobs apparently underwent an orthotopic liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee. I... |
| FDA to consider small inhaler for diabetes patients – MedCity Morning Read, Oct. 12, 2009 | Image via Wikipedia
People with diabetes soon may be able to use a discreet device to inhale, rather than inject, insulin, according to The New York Times.
The device, a small inhaler and insulin powder created by the Valencia, Calif.-based... |
| Morning Read: Nurse practitioners–the new primary care providers? | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care:
Nurse practitioners–the new primary care providers? As the U.S. faces a well-chronicled shortage of primary care physicians that’s only expected to worsen in com... |
| Morning Read: JP Morgan 2016 (the final chapter) | TOP STORIES
JP Morgan’s 2016 healthcare conference – and the Health-apalooza around it – have wound down. See all of MedCity News’ coverage here (there’s still more to come). But here’s some of the notable coverage from Thursday:
Celgene CE... |
| New diagnostics firm asks: Can genes give clues about who’s at risk for antidepressant-related suicide and violence? | In the 25 years since Prozac hit the market, the drug class known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors has accumulated millions of users (1 in 10 Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, according the Centers for Disease ... |
| Welcome to the Web, doctor. Can I trust you? | Doctors trust medical research. Patients trust their friends.
As health systems wade deeper into the Web to engage their patients, who can they trust to help spread the word?
A quartet of health systems are experimenting with MedicalMommas... |
| Does Burzynski movie buzz come at the worst time for the FDA? | Burzynski.
To some the name evokes a sense of hope. But to others, the name conjures skepticism, even ridicule. For those who don’t know, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski is a Texas physician who has spent the better part of the last 30 years develo... |
| Ben Carson The Paradox: A respected surgeon now in search of presidency, baffling science-minded Americans | Ben Carson was a well-respected neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital for years, reportedly known to be reserved, calm and collected. That image juxtaposed with his current political person is not only confusing, it’s disconcerting to some... |
| Healthcare reform’s D-Day — with more to come (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Healthcare reform: The last word (for now). A quick thought ahead of the vote today to repeal healthcare reform: “There’s no free-market solut... |