At least three new studies opened for enrollment through their Research app. You may need to update the app first, I was able to enroll in the hearing study and also the heart health study. The women's health study is also available for enrollment. Why I cannot delete that from my list, I don't know ( Read more... )

Name the movie that line came from and win a Kewpie doll ( Read more... )

Very brief - on rare occasion I'm capable of brief posts ( Read more... )

Interesting article from The Atlantic. More and more people are realizing the insanity of the BMI chart. It was formulated when a doctor started playing with calculating by dividing weight by height. The problem is that there are lots of problems with BMI as a gauge for health, such as severely underweight people, or people who are in to weight ( Read more... )

Just wow.

She "had just returned from a trip to Vietnam, where there has been widespread measles activity, according to “Inside Edition ( Read more... )

Perhaps my hatred should be spewed upon our medical insurance plan, I don't know ( Read more... )

This is pure awesome! I'm personally interested as I have a condition called epiretinal membrane that, if it gets seriously worse, will mean that I will no longer be able to see straight lines. Don't tell me that won't screw me up as a photographer! And I have no idea how that will affect my ability to read, and photography, reading, and ( Read more... )

43%. Not for sale. Just being sat on. Which means a lot of drugs have ZERO COMPETITION and nothing forcing them to lower prices through active competition. There are several reasons for this, but I suspect regardless of what is said that the biggie is to simply keep prices high as long as possible on the newer and patented drugs in order to ( Read more... )

The drug, Aloquin, was used to treat eczema and consisted of an old generic antibiotic and extracts from aloe vera. The price went from about $250 a tube to almost $10,000 a tube. Apparently patients balked at the price and rejected the prescriptions ( Read more... )

I don't think he stood much of a chance getting the nomination, but there was also a grimmer reason behind it: his daughter has a fairly rare genetic disorder called Trisomy 18, or Edwards Syndrome. He spent Easter weekend with her in the hospital then Tuesday announced his dropping the campaign ( Read more... )