Headlines – Page 844 – Healthy Skeptic

Mar 24 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Screening women for breast cancer failed to significantly reduce the number of deaths from the malignancy, contrary to earlier findings, a Danish study found

Mar 24 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Dozens of endowments, foundations and pensions funds are banding together to demand lower fees and greater oversight of their investments in a private-equity industry noted for its opaqueness

Mar 24 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The legislation also creates an Independent Payment Advisory Board to suggest cuts in spending by Medicare,that could threaten payments for drug and device-makers

Mar 24 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The historic overhaul of the nation’s health care system when combined with the fixes making their way through Congress, will raise taxes over the next 10 years by more than a half-trillion dollars

Mar 24 2010

BusinessWire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

IMI Health, a health care information company, has acquired Minneapolis-based BoundaryMedical, a leading outcomes measurement software company

Mar 24 2010

ECN

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Measurement Specialties introduces the 4400 Series family of disposable medical temperature probes for continuous patient monitoring applications

Mar 23 2010

AuntMinnie

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Apple’s iPhone med-apps excitement may be dampened somewhat with a recent FDA decision to classify an iPhone image viewing application as a class III device requiring premarket approval

Mar 23 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A requirement tucked into the nation’s massive health care bill: more than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus

Mar 23 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health care reform leaves Americans with a burning question: How’s this all going to work? Some questions and answers on the health care bill

Mar 23 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Comprehensive health-care legislation will set in motion a fundamental shift across a sprawling industry, from insurers who will face an expanding list of restrictions to hospitals and doctors confronted with new incentives to practice more-efficient care