Archive for February, 2010
Stanford Review Finds Painfully Few Surefire Treatments For Muscle Cramps
Most cases of muscle cramps never get reported to public health authorities, so it’s difficult to say how common they are. But you probably know someone who’s had them. You’ve probably had them, too. And the older you get, the more likely you’re having one right now…
Officials Crack Down On Medicare Fraud In Miami And Los Angeles
NPR: “When it comes to health care fraud, schemes that target Medicare are among the most common and lucrative. That’s because the $400 billion federal program is a fat and easy target. The Obama administration … has requested an increase for an effort to crack down on Medicare fraud…
GOP Plans To Attend Health Summit As Obama Calls For Compromise
President Barack Obama warned during the weekend that both Republicans and Democrats should be careful not to turn this week’s health care summit into “political theater” but to work to find “common ground” on the issues, The Washington Post reports…
FDA Recommends H1N1 For Inclusion In Next Year’s Flu Vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday recommended that the H1N1 (swine flu) strain be added to next year’s seasonal flu vaccine, “putting an end to separate shots deployed against the pandemic,” Bloomberg reports. The FDA committee voted unanimously to make the H1N1 strain one of the three strains included in the shot, according to the news service…
PositiveID Corporation Successfully Completes Phase I Development Of Its Rapid Virus Detection System
PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:PSID), in conjunction with its development partner RECEPTORS LLC (“Receptors”), announced today that it has successfully completed Phase I development of its rapid virus detection system, a non-invasive, point-of-care test to test patient samples and identify various forms of influenza within minutes…
Pandemic Hybrid Of Bird And Human Seasonal Flu Possible Say Scientists
An international team of scientists has created a highly pathogenic laboratory hybrid of the H5N1 bird flu and human seasonal flu viruses by swapping just one gene, and propose that a similar genetic interaction could happen in nature between the current pandemic H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 avian flu strains, highlighting the importance of continued surveillance…
Countdown To Medicare Meltdown: Day 6 – Texas Medical Association
The following can be attributed to William H. Fleming III, MD, president of the Texas Medical Association. Dr. Fleming’s statement addresses the Medicare physician payment cuts slated for March 1, 2010. “Texas physicians have pleaded with Congress to fix Medicare for the past decade. It is the insurance senior citizens and people with disabilities depend on for health care…
Virus Hybridization Could Create Pandemic Bird Flu
Genetic interactions between avian H5N1 influenza and human seasonal influenza viruses have the potential to create hybrid strains combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of H1N1, according to a new study. In laboratory experiments in mice, a single gene segment from a human seasonal flu virus, H3N2, was able to convert the avian H5N1 virus into a highly pathogenic form…
An emotion detector for baby
Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists have developed a statistical computer program that can analyze a baby’s crying.
Study Says Lower-Cost Hospitals Don’t Have Lower Quality Care For Certain Illnesses
A study Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine found little difference in outcomes between hospitals with longer patient stays and shorter ones, which could make it “possible to lower costs in the U.S. system without hurting patients,” Reuters reports…
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