Category — Asides

Blood Glucose Monitoring Market Gets a Bit Crowded -MDL Newsletter.

Not crowded enough perhaps. With diabetes growing at an alarming rate the best the industry could come up with in this day an age is invasive instruments [Read more →]

AIST Develops ‘Intelligent’ Electronic Wheelchair With Next-generation Graphic Sensing System - from Medicalnewstoday

This wheelchair sensing system was shown at the International Homecare and Rehabilitation Exhibition in Japan which is a must attend for companies seeking one of the few remaining highly profitable world markets.

Clients from the UK should no longer call me saying they want to restructure their organization with some young energetic new blood. They would be breaking this new law. Suits me - forces the client to really think through what they really need.

British government defends new anti-ageist law - Yahoo! News

The debate continues
Oxygen equipment costs fuel debate in Ohio
Medicare could buy almost 13 home oxygen machines for what it pays to rent one, according to a federal investigation.

The stent debate continues.
NEJM — Sirolimus-Eluting versus Uncoated Stents in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Background Sirolimus-eluting stents reduce rates of restenosis and reintervention, as compared with uncoated stents. Data are limited regarding the safety and efficacy of such stents in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation.

Jean Anouilh Quotes “what you get free costs too much”…. my quote - “tell this to my clients”

Vestar Capital announced today it was acquiring MediMedia Information Technologies Vestar is the group that took Sunrise Medical private in 2000 in a $365 transaction and is now adding to their healthcare portfolio