Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans’ hospital. Source: Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries…
One of the biggest hospital chains in the US said hackers obtained protected health information for 1 million patients after exploiting a vulnerability in an enterprise software product called GoAnywhere.Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday that the attack…
Research studies do not conclusively support the use of static magnets for pain relief. There is some evidence that electromagnetic therapy may be helpful for pain. Source: Magnets For Pain: What You Need To Know | NCCIH Post Views: 242
A promising approach to control Staphylococcus aureus bacterial colonization in people – using a probiotic instead of antibiotics – was safe and highly effective in a Phase 2 clinical trial. The new study, reported in The Lancet Microbe, found that the probiotic Bacillus subtilis markedly reduced S. aureus colonization in…
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