My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
Brand-name drugs cost two to three times more in the U.S. than in other countries, but many of the top-selling brand name drugs may provide little added therapeutic benefit. A…
Chronic stress is the number one factor contributing to high medical expenses. Public release date: 12-Sep-2011 According to a study published this week in the September/October 2011 issue of the…
Public release date: 27-Jul-2011 Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman’s risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following…
BROOKLYN (CN) - A 22,000-member physicians' group sued United Healthcare Insurance, claiming the money-grubbing, multibillion-dollar insurance company is illegally terminating them from its Medicare network on Jan.…
Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until trial after $9m bond revoked The oncologist 'systematically defrauded Medicare by submitting false claims for services that were medically unnecessary,' authorities say…
By David Martosko In Washington PUBLISHED: 15:27 EST, 29 July 2013 | UPDATED: 15:56 EST, 29 July 2013 The U.S. government's books are in the red by more than…
Contact: Donna Dubuc Donna.M.Dubuc@Dartmouth.edu 603-653-3615 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Study points to over diagnosis as the factor (Lebanon, NH, 6/26/13) —The rapid increase in papillary thyroid cancer in the US, may…
Contact: Donna Dubuc Donna.M.Dubuc@Dartmouth.edu 603-653-3615 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Study points to over diagnosis as the factor (Lebanon, NH, 6/26/13) —The rapid increase in papillary thyroid cancer in the US, may…
MANHATTAN (CN) - Novartis Pharmaceuticals cost Medicare and Medicaid tens of millions of dollars by paying kickbacks to pharmacies to switch transplant patients to one of its…
17 Apr 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with…
17 Apr 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with no complications,…
SAN DIEGO (CN) - San Diego-based Victory Pharma will pay $11.4 million in civil and criminal fines for paying kickbacks to doctors who prescribed its drugs, federal…
Health Technology Research Synopsis 138th Issue Date 21 SEP 2012 Compiled By Ralph Turchiano www.healthresearchreport.me www.vit.bz www.youtube.com/vhfilm www.facebook.com/engineeringevil www.engineeringevil.com Editors Top Five: Most prescription drugs manufactured overseas -- are they safe?…
Contact: Jeanne Bernard Jeanne.Bernard@mountsinai.org 212-241-9200 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine As many as a quarter of Medicare recipients spend more than the total value of…
New York, 4 September 2012 Study finds out-of-pocket spending on healthcare in old age puts significant strain on finances The protection of the savings of the elderly—one of the primary…
Public release date: 13-Nov-2008 - Seventy six percent of physicians said they are working at “full capacity” or “overextended and overworked”. - More than 90 percent said the time they…
Public release date: 14-Jan-2008 Selectively restraining elderly residents and giving them fewer sleeping pills could significantly reduce falls, according to a survey of 21 nursing home units published in the…
Public release date: 15-Oct-2007 Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2007 – Patients underreported their use of common but potentially dangerous over-the-counter pain medications known as NSAIDs, according to research presented at…
Ballay Pharmaceuticals Inc. had a choice nine years ago: seek U.S. approval to sell a prescription decongestant or slip the drug on the market and hope regulators wouldn't order…
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