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Take the CRP in my blood down, or the new statin dance

Many people with low cholesterol have heart attacks anyway, and a drug trial known as JUPITER, bankrolled by a statin maker, found that reducing CRP levels actually cut risks of a stroke or other other coronary event by half. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Blood, Protein, Cholesterol, CRP, NEJM

Blog posts 2008-11-10

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Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win

Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...

Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Outlines in Clinical Medicine (Mobile)

Outlines in Clinical Medicinepowered by Skyscape Authors: Michael Kauffman, MD, PhDPublisher: OutlineMed, Inc. Outlines in Clinical Medicine is the most comprehensive, up-to-date medical reference title available for handheld computers. OCM covers internal medicine and was created with the intention of incorporating large amounts of rapidly changing medical information into a...

Tags: Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Biotechnology, Healthcare, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

New England Journal of Medicine fights flu panic

New England Journal of Medicine fights flu panicKnow what's behind the firewall?A lot of research paid for with taxpayer funding.Someone gets the funding from the NIH, does the research and sends their results to one of the major pubs, like the NEJM. Docs with subscriptions get the information, but...

Tags: Firewalls, Government, New England Journal, flu, firewall

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Apple lifts lid on new-look 4GB iPod shuffles

Apple lifts lid on new-look 4GB iPod shufflesI think I'll stick with the Sansa Clip......because whilst the voiceover sounds nice I kind of don't want to interrupt the song to find out what it is which, of course, is where a screen comes in handy.Plus you can get them in...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, lid, headphone

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Test for Linearity Between Continuous Confounder and Binary Outcome First, Run a Multivariate Regression Analysis Second

Previous statistical studies have indicated that dichotomizing a continuous confounding variable in multivariate regression analyses can lead to biased estimation of the effect of exposures, treatments, and risk factors on outcomes. The paper suggests that, prior to entry in the multivariate analysis, one should test whether or not the continuous...

Tags: Outcome, Regression, Analysis, Linearity Assumption

White papers 2009-02-27

Stem cell dam broken?

Stem cell dam broken?They delayed progress for 8 years and in 5 we will have curesI hope every single person who was against stem cell reasearch for religious reasons is in a car wreck and is severly disabled.Those who are scientifically opposed, i disagree with you. I realize there...

Tags: stem-cell, cell, adult stem-cell, embryonic stem, embryonic stem cell

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?

The NEJM editorial suggests a link may exist between Zetia or Vytorin and cancer, that Schering-Plough and Merck spun studies disputing the link for their own profit. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: FDA, Link, Merck & Co. Inc., Schering-Plough Corp., Drug, Consumer Marketing, Drugs, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Deja vu all over again on health insurance

A New England Journal of Medicine editorial on health insurance out today warns we could be heading back to another Harry and Louise moment, alluding to the failure of health care reform in 1994. The proposals offered by John McCain on the one hand and Barack Obama...

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits Expert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Today's Debate: How bad is childrens' health care?

A New England Journal of Medicine article, out today, says the state of childrens' health care in the U.S. is "far from optimal." This is putting it mildly. Kids in this country, even those with insurance, routinely get less than half the health care measures pediatricians recommend....

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-11