Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Here’s one for The Healthcare IT Guy… MedPage Today reports that “Computerized Drug Ordering Reduces Chemotherapy Errors.” Some excerpts: Using the system reduced the likelihood that a child would get the wrong daily chemotherapy dose by 74%, and virtually eliminated the risk of dose calculation errors, wrote Christopher U. Lehmann, M.D., of Johns Hopkins, and…
British teeth are not famed for their beauty. There are countless jokes about British teeth on television and at comedy clubs. Even in Mexico, protruding, discolored and generally unfortunate teeth are known as “dientes de ingles.” A serious shortage of dentists in England, however, is causing this stereotype to become reality. The New York…
The May 4th Health Wonk Review has been posted on Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters site.
The Healthy Policy blog has two posts (one for the insured and one for the uninsured) which offer a compendium of statistics of these two groups. Some interesting statistics: The number of employers providing health insurance has dropped 9% in five years; from 69% in 2000 to 60% in 2005. The average insured person already…
Michael Jordan. Pele. Sandy Koufax. William Henderson. How do the greatest athletes in the world become so great? Do they have an innate ability or are they simply hard workers? Certainly, it is a combination of both. Nevertheless Anders Ericsson, a psychology professor at Florida State University, claims that talent is over-rated; hard work is…
You feel an uncomfortable pressure, squeezing the center of your chest. The pain spreads to your shoulders, your neck and then your arms. As you begin to perspire, you are suddenly overwhelmed with lightheadedness and nausea. You are having a heart attack and you need to find help soon. If you were living in San…
Who says MBA students don’t learn anything? Check out this video where Columbia MBA students parody Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke. It is pretty entertaining.
Earlier I posted that Mexico would pass a bill decriminalizing drug use. Late last night, howeer, President Vicente Fox decided not to approve the Mexican law which would have decriminalized minor drug use. The Chicago Tribune (“Mexico’s Fox retreats…“) implied that this reversal was due significant pressure exerted by the U.S. on Mr. Fox.
Less than two weeks ago, the New York Times (“Report Illumintes Wide Divide…“) reported that FDA has denied that there are any medicinal benefits to marijuana. The article continues stating: While it has always been the drug enforcement agency’s policy to enforce laws against marijuana, [DEA spokeswomen] Ms. Waite said, “now it’s clearly out there,…
Pharmaceutical companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars in order to gain FDA approval for their products. A biologist at the FDA headquarters makes between $38 and $86 thousand. The diffeence between these two sums is emormous; thus, it would not be surprising if the FDA was ripe with corruption. Sure enough, the New York…