Federal regulators say they are moving to tighten their oversight of medical devices, including one of the most ubiquitous and problematic pieces of medical equipment — automated pumps that intravenously deliver drugs, food and other solutions to patients.
Maandelijks archief: April 2010
An Insurer’s New Approach to Diabetes
The UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, is teaming up with the Y.M.C.A. and retail pharmacies to try a new approach to one of the nation’s most serious and expensive medical problems: Type 2 diabetes.
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Chronic Diseases & The Internet Report: Impact for Pharma
You may have seen the headline that U.S. adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet (62% vs. 81%).
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Herpetiform Pemphigus Clinically Resembling Bullous Pemphigoid
Herpetiform pemphigus was first introduced by Jablonska in 1975, as a variant of pemphigus that combines the clinical features of dermatitis herpetiformis with the immunological features of pemphigus.
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In Reporting Symptoms, Don’t Patients Know Best?
About six years ago, my doctor gave me some samples of a drug to treat pain from an injury. I took it for a few days and then woke up one morning with a big red blister on my tongue.…
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A doctor’s dilemma
” He’s got comes it is good. Confidence is an extremely rare and potentially fatal blistering skin disease that can cause painful sores in the — okay. To — from this group. We’ll see that the — right there. This…
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