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Scientist Claims New Reprogramming Technique Works in Human Cells, May Lead to Cloning
After the ground-breaking news last week that Japanese scientists were able reprogram adult cells to embryonic-like cells in mice by simply bathing them in weak acid, the next step was to try this with human cells. The technique is called "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency", or STAP.With lightening speed, Dr. Charles Vacanti and his team at Harvard Medical School has announced that they have created STAP human cells. New Scientist has the story:Talk about speedy work. Hot on the heels of the news that simply dipping adult mouse cells in acid could turn them into cells with the potential to turn into ...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 12, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: STAP stem cells Source Type: blogs

On Scientific Debates
I don't consider myself to be an uneducated hillbilly..by any means. My family has engineers and a physicist,computer programmers, a nurse,a Marine...3 PHD's. I don't think you can pigeonhole a certain lifestyle onto a group of people who believe a certain way. I happen to believe in Biblical (6 day) creation, although many scientists believe in evolutionary(million of years) creation. My husband works in a place that has many such people (who don't consider themselves to be religious) who believe in theistic evolution..why,because while science is still the biggest belief in their life the evidence still points to a highe...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - February 5, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs

The Plot of the CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF/ ABIM/ Dr Cassel Case Thickens Even More - Current NQF and Previous ABIM CEO Found to be Long-Term Premier Inc Board Member, Resigns from that Board
The plot of the CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF/ Leapfrog Group case (as we previously entitled it)  just will not stop thickening.Background To summarize the events up to our last post on the subject:   -  The case became public with an apparently routine legal settlement between CareFusion and the US Department of Justice -  The CareFusion settlement for $40.1 million was made in response to allegations that kickbacks were made to promote ChloraPrep, a solution meant for preoperative and other health care skin cleaning-  The Department of Justice news release also alleged that payments were ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 3, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: ABIM conflicts of interest Dr Christine Cassel group purchasing organizations National Quality Forum Premier Inc Source Type: blogs

Learning by Doing: A Model that Works in EHR Training – Breakaway Thinking
The following is a guest blog post by Todd Stansfield from The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. I didn’t learn to change the oil in my car until I changed it. My father instructed me a dozen times, and I watched him a dozen more, but it wouldn’t resonate until I got my hands dirty. I can count an endless number of other tasks that never stuck with me after reading about them in a textbook or hearing about them in a classroom. Some things I need to learn by doing; and I’m not alone. Why is changing oil different from learning about the Roman Empi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 19, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Breakaway Thinking EHR Simulations EHR Training Instructor Led Training Simulatation Based Training The Breakaway Group Todd Stansfield Xerox X Source Type: blogs

Nurturing – our job in medical education
Charles Blow has a fantastic essay today in the NY Times – In College, Nurturing Matters In the essay he talks about his college experience at Grambling and how a professor had a huge impact on his career. We in medical education should heed his advice.  Our mission (if we choose to accept it) is to prepare future doctors.  We will succeed more often when we nurture our learners, helping them grow and succeed. We must have high expectations, but work to help them meet those expectations. Too often medical education lacks longitudinal relationships, yet nurturing benefits from such relationships.  Nurturing does n...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - May 8, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

July 2014 Man of the Month: Josh C. Rubin
July’s Man of the Month, Josh C. Rubin, is a true visionary and revolutionary in health care. Rubin was recently appointed as the Executive Program Officer for Research and Development activities related to the Learning Health System (LHS), a new university-wide initiative headed by Charles Friedman, University of Michigan School of Information professor and director of the University of Michigan’s Health Informatics Program. Today we talk to him about his work and efforts to transform health care through the LHS.   Q: In layperson’s terms, what is the Learning Health System or LHS? Before I begin, thank yo...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 31, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DW Staff Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs

Medicare Pays $220 Million a Year for Acthar Without Any Controlled Trials that Prove it Works - While We Have No Money to Develop Ebola Vaccines or Treatment?
Introduction - No Money for Ebola Vaccine DevelopmentWhile a new Ebola epidemic continues in Africa, people in developed countries are getting worried. Even the 0.1%, who may have rarely worried about our dysfunctional health care system before, are getting nervous. For example, this week, the Donald seemed panic stricken that Ebola infected American health workers might be allowed to return to the US, no matter what the precautions.  As reported by Politico,Donald Trump has a message for the Ebola patient coming to the United States for treatment: Stay out.'Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days — ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 5, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: ACTH Acthar deception Ebola virus executive compensation FDA health care prices marketing perverse incentives Questcor You heard it here first Source Type: blogs

July 2014 Man of the Month: Josh C. Rubin
July’s Man of the Month, Josh C. Rubin, is a true visionary and revolutionary in health care. Rubin was recently appointed as the Executive Program Officer for Research and Development activities related to the Learning Health System (LHS), a new university-wide initiative headed by Charles Friedman, University of Michigan School of Information professor and director of the University of Michigan’s Health Informatics Program. Today we talk to him about his work and efforts to transform health care through the LHS.   Q: In layperson’s terms, what is the Learning Health System or LHS? Before I begin, thank yo...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 31, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs

The 7% plan to fix primary care
This is a simple plan that would empower patients, improve the lot of primary care physicians and likely hold down medical costs while improving quality in the health care system. I would first like to present the plan, then elaborate on how it could accomplish the above objectives. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Policy Health reform Primary care Source Type: blogs

28 Harvard Lawprofs: Stop The Campus Sex-Charge Railroad Now
Walter Olson This is big:  As members of the faculty of Harvard Law School, we write to voice our strong objections to the Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures imposed by the central university administration… Amid the clamor to provide fuller remedies to complainants who file sexual assault and harassment charges, the university is preparing to trample the interests of others: Harvard has adopted procedures for deciding cases of alleged sexual misconduct which lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process, are overwhelmingly stacked against the accused, and are in no way required by Title IX law ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs

What do you know about breast reconstruction?
Happy BRA Day! October 15 is officially Breast Cancer Reconstruction Awareness Day. It’s a natural time to discuss commonly-asked questions about breast reconstructive surgery. Breast cancer is a devastating diagnosis and the treatment tends to have a direct impact on a woman’s self-esteem, especially if there has been a mastectomy or partial mastectomy. Just knowing breast reconstruction is an option is consoling; it offers hope for many patients. Yet physicians and patients typically have questions about the process of breast reconstruction. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. M...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 15, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs

Bug in MetaVision ICU system potentially catastrophic - American bad health IT goes Down Under
I have often written in this blog about healthcare IT defects and the lack of quality control regulation and safety testing.   I have indicated that patients have become guinea pigs for software development and testing, and healthcare facilities a software beta testing "proving ground" and defects remediation site.This should all be occurring in the lab, not on live patients who've never given their consent to the use of these experimental cybernetic "command and control" systems that, in fact, regulate and govern their care in many ways.Now there's this from Down Under in the journal Pulse*IT:http://www.pulseitm...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: bad health IT glitch healthcare IT defects healthcare IT risk iMDsoft Kate McDonald MetaVision ICU system Pulse*IT Queensland Health Source Type: blogs

Predictive text: Darwin’s computers
Charles Darwin’s IBM computers There are lots of quotes around attributed to the great and the good throughout the years, but often these are anything but direct quotes and in some cases turn out to have far more intriguing origins. For example, the quote often attributed to Thomas John Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) who was chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) in 1943 had him as saying: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” There are no recorded speeches nor documents that providence evidence for this as a quote from Watson. Indeed, the earliest mention of it was on...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - January 21, 2015 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

The Dark Matter of Senescent Cell Clearance Research: Other Approaches and Quiet Research Groups
There is no such thing as a scientific breakthrough. Advances in science and its application don't emerge from out of the blue, especially in very complex fields such as medical research, where any meaningful progress requires a team, and in very close-knit fields such as aging research, where everyone knows everyone else and at least a little about what they are working on. If the latest news looks like a breakthrough to you, that just means that you didn't know much about the people who spent years working on the foundations, the incremental advances, and the early prototypes. And why should you? You have your life to li...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 8, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

What You Should Know about Free Banking History
Conclusion on Free-Banking Episodes?,” Econ Journal Watch 2 (August), 279-324. Couyoumdjian, Juan Pable. Forthcoming. Editor, Instituciones Económicas en Chile: La banca libre durante el siglo XIX. Dowd, Kevin. 1992a. Editor, The Experience of Free Banking. London: Routledge. Dowd, Kevin. 1992b. “Introduction” to Dowd 1992a. Dowd, Kevin. 1992c. “Free Banking in Australia,” in Dowd 1992a. Fink, Alexander. 2014. “Free Banking as an Evolving System: The Case of Switzerland Reconsidered,” Review of Austrian Economics 27 (March), 57-69. Hickson, Charles R., and Turner, John D. 2002. “Free banking Gone Awry: The...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 28, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs