Lucky Gunasekara, CIO, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, talks about the challenges of moving medical education away from a linear model and preparing student to solve, non-linear, exponential problems.…
Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, Global Director, Healthcare Transformation, IBM, discusses the movement of medical practice from an “episode of care” model to the management of populations, and the…
Philip Low, PhD, Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil, talks about a new paradigm for Portable Brain Scanning pioneered by NeuroVigil. Filmed at FutureMed, in February, 2012, at Singularity…
David Hale, Project Manager, Pillbox, National Library of Medicine, describes the Pillbox initiative, which leverages large, open, but unwieldy drug information databases to facilitate rapid, easy development of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing mechanical valve replacement, performing a concomitant Maze procedure during surgery reduces the rate of subsequent thromboembolic events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, adding pemetrexed to cisplatin therapy does not improve overall survival (OS) in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are prescribed statin therapy for hypercholesterolemia or ischemic heart disease are at increased risk of death from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Occult Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a “rare but important” issue in adult emergency department patients, one that deserves closer attention, a team of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cigarette smoking enhanced the effects of clopidogrel in a study of diabetics with coronary artery disease. Accordingly, smokers were less likely to experience…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Real-world outcomes among patients with stable coronary disease favor percutaneous coronary intervention over routine medical care alone, according to data maintained by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An investigational phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor, avanafil, is an effective and well tolerated treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED), according to the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disease-free survival is not improved after resection of stage III colon cancer when cetuximab is added to chemotherapy with leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin…
