Medicare Saved $4 Billion
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has saved $4 billion over five years on payments through the process of rebid
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Medical Technology
Another Tool in the Treatment of Strokes
When a stent retriever, approved in 2012 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is used in conjunction with the
Read MoreAre We Close To Creating Synthetic Humans?
In an article published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Science, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, states a
Read MoreWhat We Are Not Hearing
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a comprehensive report on how to bring about more accessible and
Read MoreHearing Aids Should They Be Deregulate?
The Food and Drug Administration held a public workshop on hearing aid regulations which was enacted to protect the hearing
Read MoreInventing A Machine That Spits Out Drugs In A Whole New Way
(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News) In a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all the work
Read MoreBreathalyzer Test is Not Just for Alcohol Anymore
Joseph Azzarelli, MIT student and Ph.D. candidate, won the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition with a simple breathalyzer test that could diagnose
Read MoreZika Virus Test Approval by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to Quest Diagnostics Inc. to sell the first commercially developed diagnostic
Read More$250 Million for Cancer Immunotherapy
Sean Parker, founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook is giving $250 million to six cancer centers nationwide for
Read MoreCan Smartphones Diagnose Cancer?
Currently there are more than 165,000 smartphone apps on health and wellness available for you to download but some are
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