Ins and Outs

January 8th, 2009 News

  • PaO2=19.1 mmHg: Doctors measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record… [NEJM]
  • Brain pacemaker helps Parkinson’s, but with risks… [AP]
  • Study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Shows Medtronic Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy Improved Quality of Life and Motor Function in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease… [Medtronic]
  • Canadians Worry U.S. Health Reform Could Lead to Doctor Poaching … [WSJ]
  • Obama Aims to Help Patients Wipe Away Medical Debts … [WSJ]
  • Massachusetts Probes High Insurance Payments to Favored Hospitals … [WSJ]
  • Can the Physical Examination Save Us From the Technology-Induced Dehumanization of Medicine?… [Wachter’s World]
  • 2009 the year for predictive health start-ups… [ZDNet Healthcare]
  • Scientists uncovers genetic basis for a number of birth defects affecting development of the heart and head… [Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine]
  • Scientists Identify New Congenital Neutropenia Syndrome and Causative Gene Mutation… [NIH]
  • New study finds women’s brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat… [Rice University]
  • Tennis balls for tremor treatment… [BBC]
  • New Protein Family May Explain a Mystery of Insect Olfaction… [HHMI]
  • What is the standard chemotherapy for colorectal cancer patients with resectable liver metastases? [Nature Clinical Practice Oncology]
  • Hospitals Scale Back on Robots, Infusion Devices in Tough Economy… [WSJ]

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