No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times. (The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that treatment is out of reach — simply because the systems are expensive — rentals cost at least $100 a day and need to be recharged every six hours.
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Scammer Explains How Easy It Is To Steal Millions 60 Minutes Medicare Fraud A $60 Billion Crime is sure to make taxpayers irate. A Real Solution to the Health Care Crisis Waste in Healthcare Spending Should be Issue Number One In Healthcare Insurance Reform World Health Care Spending and Performance Ranking by Country (Table) The price of excess: Identifying waste in healthcare spending An Agenda for Change: Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration
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Amazon has launched two new Kindle e-readers priced at $139 and $189, with the cheaper version a Wi-Fi-only e-reader and $10 less than the Wi-Fi-only Nook.
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Are you hesitant to help people who have collapsed because you don't want to give them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?
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“Why did my primary-care physician give me an antidepressant when I could have had something simple, like estrogen?” she asked. “Why don’t they know?”.... “Sixty-eight percent of all victims of Alzheimer’s are women. Is it just because they live longer? Let’s say it is, for purposes of discussion. Let’s say it’s just because these ladies get old. Do we just say, ‘Who cares?’ and move them into a nursing home? Or alternatively, maybe they are telling us something.” -- Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton There is a great article in the New York Times This article cuts across a broad spectrum of diseases, but is focused on hormones, estrogen and something called the timing hypothesis.
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is officially in the race to win over China’s increasing number of smartphone users.
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The National Council on Aging has released a poll showing that a majority of senior citizens are uninformed about the impact of the federal health care law on Medicare and Medicaid benefits. The national survey of 636 men and women ages 65 and over, conducted by Harris Interactive
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Some major health insurance companies have stopped issuing certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said in his state UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said a couple of local insurers in her state have done likewise....
The major types of coverage for children — employer plans and government programs — are not be affected by the disruption. But a subset of policies — those that cover children as individuals — may run into problems. Even so, insurers are not canceling children's coverage already issued, but refusing to write new policies.
The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers cover kids, regardless of medical problems. This is one of the most important and most popular elements of the bill, and one that appears to have a loophole allowing insurers who carry policies that would cover children as individuals to just not offer them. Read more at www.dailykos.com
The table above displays data from The Council of Graduate Schools for the average annual growth in graduate school enrollment by gender over the ten year period from 1998-2008 for the ten main fields of graduate study. The bottom table above displays data for graduate school enrollment by gender in 2008.
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The estimated amount, in millions of dollars, that Wal-Mart Stores has spent in legal fees battling a $7,000 federal fine, which was assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at a Long Island store in 2008. Wal-Mart argues that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is improperly trying to categorize “crowd trampling” as a hazard that retailers must take steps to prevent. The Labor Department’s legal office says it has logged 4,725 hours of employee time on the case. Wal-Mart did not dispute OSHA’s $2 million estimate. In a legal filing in February, the company acknowledged that it had already spent $1 million on legal fees.
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The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 people and setting off the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker on Friday told a government panel investigating the accident.
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A kind of colonial cnidarian — an animal with stinging cells related to anemones, corals and jellyfish. The cluster of creatures was photographed near a cold seep nearly a mile down.
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Direct-to-consumer genetic-testing companies were in the hot seat this week, with scrutiny from both the FDA and Congress. Fodder for some of the discussion was a new GAO report that focused on the scientific accuracy and marketing efforts of tests by companies including 23andMe, Pathway Genomics, deCODE genetics and Navigenics. You can read about the GAO report in this story from today’s WSJ. And here’s the GAO report itself. But for some Friday fun, listen to or read the transcripts of undercover calls to unnamed genetic-testing companies made by GAO investigators. (Undercover contact was made with 15 companies, including the four listed above.)
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Something stinks in Texas. A rare “corpse flower” is set to bloom any moment at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
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magazine that I want to bring to the attention of women. Women that read this blog, their friends and children. 
