http://www.medarchive.org Big medical archive Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:02:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A helmet that looks like it came from a sci-fi flick may offer real help to Alzheimer's sufferers. The Daily Mail reports that the helmet bathes the wearer with infra-red light. The helmet only needs to be worn for ten minutes each day. Dr Dougal claims that only ten ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/05/infra-red-helmet-may-help-alzheimers-patients/ The video from the Wall Street Journal discusses the issue of hidden tramatic brain injuries. Many researchers believe that hidden traumatic brain injuries may be the cause of social or educational failure for many people. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine is behind some important research in this area. Permalink | ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/05/hiddenc-brain-injuries-linked-to-social-and-educational/ The Miami Herald documented the rise and fall of a prominent medical supply company. Before its spectacular collapse, Pharmed Group was one of the great South Florida success stories, a medical supply company created by two brothers who started with nothing and built the eighth-largest Hispanic-owned business in America. In 2003, ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/04/the-phall-of-pharmed/ In "Avandia Mystery ... Elementary, My Dear Watson" I wrote that the mysterious disclosure outside GSK of an equally mysterious "leak" to GSK of a pre-publication article critical of Avandia might have been initiated by unhappy GSK employee(s). Those who made the disclosure knew, or should have known, the devastating ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/04/how-to-demoralize-pharma-workers-in-one-easy-lesson/ The GSK diabetes drug Avandia and the Pfizer anti-smoking drug Chantix are new entries in a long "honor roll" of drugs from major pharmaceutical companies to come under suspicion of having an unacceptable degree of adverse drug effects (ADE's). The recent Avandia issues reminded me of assertions about need for more ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/03/gsk-avandia-and-medical-informatics-more-on-why/ Last week, an article in Newsday raised concerns about conflicts of interest affecting one of the largest US health care systems. The Northshore - Long Island Jewish Health System claims to be the third-largest, not-for-profit secular health care system in the US. It has a $4 billion yearly operating budget, employs ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/03/real-estate-deals-conflicts-of-interest-and-north/ Posts from January, at the new place. Saturday News Round-Up, 2/2/08 Ridiculous Lawmaker of the Day: Mayhall Wants to Ban Obese from Eating On Sushi, Mercury, and Women's Health: Can't See the Pollution for the Fish I'm Cranky, and These Labor Nurses Aren't Helping Learn About Organ Donation The Bedtime Chronicles, Vol. 4 *Blushes* Labor'Lert: A Stopwatch ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/02/womens-health-news-update-2/ In this post about Duke's decent into intellectual anarchy, I made the observation that academics have significant influence on their students, and the influence affects those students when those students become our industry's and nation's leaders. I have been reading the various debates about the actions Duke's "Group of 88" professors, ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/02/one-step-in-healthcare-renewal-is-academic-renewal/ At "Why I Sent It Is a Mystery - More About Avandia, Conflicts of Interest, and Confused Thinking" Roy Poses documents a response from a prominent biomedical researcher, Steven Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, as to why he rather blatantly breached scientific reviewer's ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/02/01/avandia-why-i-sent-it-is-a-mystery-plausible-deniability/ Most everyone is aware of the Duke lacrosse team scandal, the debacle about alleged rape by Duke lacrosse team students that led to the resignation of prosecutor Nifong for prosecutorial misconduct, exoneration of the accused, an expose of the radical agendas of a subset of Duke's faculty, and a great ... http://www.medarchive.org/2008/01/31/truly-disturbing-lawsuit-against-duke-university/